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authorMatthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>2019-09-27 18:45:12 +0200
committerMatthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>2019-09-27 18:47:14 +0200
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env.c: make FETCHMAILHOME (fmhome) absolute.
If FETCHMAILHOME is specified as relative path, then it can become the victim of a chdir("/") that happens in daemon mode, so that switching to daemon mode will change behaviour of FETCHMAILHOME. Reported by Alex Andreotti, Debian Bug #941129.
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@@ -188,6 +188,9 @@ fetchmail-6.4.0 (not yet released):
that quoted-printable-encoded multipart messages can get decoded.
(Regression in 5.0.0 on 1999-03-27, as a side effect of a PGP-mimedecode fix
attributed to Henrik Storner.)
+* FETCHMAILHOME can now safely be a relative path, which will be qualified
+ through realpath(). Previously, it had to be absolute in daemon mode.
+ Reported by Alex Andreotti, Debian Bug#941129.
## UPDATED TRANSLATIONS - THANKS TO:
* CS: Petr Pisar <petr.pisar@atlas.cz> [Czech]