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| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | configure.in | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | fetchmail.c | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | fetchmail.man | 8 |
4 files changed, 31 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -6,6 +6,11 @@ I want a --logfile option that redirects the daemon-mode output to a given file, but the code (in daemon.c near 200) unaccountably doesn't work (so I haven't documented it yet). +Why doesn't sendmail delivery work in daemon mode? In daemon mode +(but not in normal run-to-completion mode) popclient croaks after +its first delivery (there's a kluge in options.c to deal with this). +We need the logfile option to debug this! + Option to enable EMACS-like user folder versioning on each run. -p option to come back? @@ -22,7 +27,9 @@ Implement IMAP support. * Added -N/--norewrite option. -* Delivery via sendmail now works. +* Delivery via sendmail now works in non-daemon mode. + +* Experimental code to support 3.01: diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in index 2a490709..8042a20e 100644 --- a/configure.in +++ b/configure.in @@ -47,6 +47,12 @@ case $host in mdacmd="/usr/bin/bellmail \$u" ;; + *-*-sco*) + AC_DEFINE(DEF_MDA,"/usr/mmdf/bin/deliver %s") + mdacmd="/usr/mmdf/bin/deliver \$u" + AC_DEFINE(BINMAIL_TERM, "\001\001\001\001\n") + ;; + *-*-hpux*) AC_DEFINE(DEF_MDA,"/bin/rmail -d %s") mdacmd="/bin/rmail -d \$u" diff --git a/fetchmail.c b/fetchmail.c index e8aae828..0e4c19bf 100644 --- a/fetchmail.c +++ b/fetchmail.c @@ -209,6 +209,15 @@ char **argv; */ do { for (hostp = hostlist; hostp; hostp = hostp->next) { + + /* + * This is a nasty kluge. V8 sendmail doesn't like daemon mode, it + * consistently bombs after the first delivery. + */ + if (hostp->output == TO_MDA + && strncmp("/usr/lib/sendmail", hostp->mda, 18) == 0) + hostp->output = TO_FOLDER; + popstatus = query_host(hostp); } diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index 671a631e..ef3c1c27 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -529,6 +529,14 @@ The --version option doesn't display MDA arguments. The (undocumented) --logfile option doesn't work, due to some weirdness in the daemon code. Fixes cheerfully accepted. .PP +Delivery via +.IR sendmail (8) +doesn't work in daemon mode; +.I popmail +dies after the first delivery. To cope with this, in daemon mode the +delivery mode is automatically switched to append-and-lock if sendmail +is the selected delivery agent. This needs to be fixed. +.PP No IMAP or RPOP support yet. .PP Send comments, bug reports, gripes, and the like to Eric S. Raymond |