2 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 3e63c249..32eeac29 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ bugs --
 
 * Various error-logging fixes by Dave Bodenstab.
 
+* Fix parsing bug that broke UIDL-processing code.
+
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 fetchmail-3.6 (Mon Feb 17 00:19:55 EST 1997)
 
diff --git a/uid.c b/uid.c
index d7179973..a0ea4a2e 100644
--- a/uid.c
+++ b/uid.c
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ void initialize_saved_lists(struct query *hostlist, const char *idfile)
 	while (fgets(buf, POPBUFSIZE, tmpfp) != (char *)NULL)
 	{
 	    /* possible lossage here with very old versions of sscanf(3)... */
-	    if ((st = sscanf(buf, "%[^@]@%s %s\n", host, user, id)) == 3)
+	    if ((st = sscanf(buf, "%[^@]@%s %s\n", user, host, id)) == 3)
 	    {
 		for (ctl = hostlist; ctl; ctl = ctl->next)
 		{