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authorEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>1997-07-30 14:21:41 +0000
committerEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>1997-07-30 14:21:41 +0000
commit8f38d33f91af1073b489763015b6938b7ceda100 (patch)
treef202e2645d9a595701d728f84258aa16511eca03 /fetchmail.c
parentcc0be999f7bb693f357173028791e22c0ed3486d (diff)
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Try to fix the HELO NULL bug.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=1202
Diffstat (limited to 'fetchmail.c')
-rw-r--r--fetchmail.c38
1 files changed, 31 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/fetchmail.c b/fetchmail.c
index 68e8e4dc..04802144 100644
--- a/fetchmail.c
+++ b/fetchmail.c
@@ -356,6 +356,32 @@ int main (int argc, char **argv)
continue;
#endif /* linux */
+ /*
+ * How we compute the true mailhost name to pass to the
+ * listener doesn't affect behavior on RFC1123- violating
+ * listener that check for name match; we're going to lose
+ * on those anyway because we can never give them a name
+ * that matches the local machine fetchmail is running on.
+ * What it will affect is the listener's logging.
+ *
+ * If we have the mailserver's canonical FQDN that is clearly
+ * the right thing to log. If we don't life is more complicated.
+ * The problem is there are two clashing cases:
+ *
+ * (1) The poll name is a label. In that case we want the
+ * log to show the via or true mailserver name.
+ *
+ * (2) The poll name is the true one, the via name is localhost.
+ * This is going to be typical for ssh-using configurations.
+ *
+ * We're going to assume the via name is true unless it's
+ * localhost.
+ */
+ if (ctl->server.via && strcmp(ctl->server.via, "localhost"))
+ ctl->server.truename = xstrdup(ctl->server.via);
+ else
+ ctl->server.truename = xstrdup(ctl->server.names->id);
+
#ifdef HAVE_GETHOSTBYNAME
/*
* This functions partly as an optimization and partly
@@ -368,7 +394,7 @@ int main (int argc, char **argv)
/* compute the canonical name of the host */
errno = 0;
- namerec = gethostbyname(ctl->server.names->id);
+ namerec = gethostbyname(ctl->server.truename);
if (namerec == (struct hostent *)NULL)
{
error(0, errno,
@@ -387,8 +413,8 @@ int main (int argc, char **argv)
}
else
{
- free(ctl->server.canonical_name);
- ctl->server.canonical_name = xstrdup((char *)namerec->h_name);
+ free(ctl->server.truename);
+ ctl->server.truename=xstrdup((char *)namerec->h_name);
}
}
#endif /* HAVE_GETHOSTBYNAME */
@@ -790,10 +816,8 @@ void dump_params (struct query *ctl)
if (ctl->server.interval)
printf(" Poll of this server will occur every %d intervals.\n",
ctl->server.interval);
-#ifdef HAVE_GETHOSTBYNAME
- if (ctl->server.canonical_name)
- printf(" Canonical DNS name of server is %s.\n", ctl->server.canonical_name);
-#endif /* HAVE_GETHOSTBYNAME */
+ if (ctl->server.truename)
+ printf(" True name of server is %s.\n", ctl->server.truename);
if (ctl->server.names->next)
{
struct idlist *idp;