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| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | fetchmail.man | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | rcfile_l.l | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | rcfile_y.y | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | sample.rcfile | 3 |
5 files changed, 17 insertions, 12 deletions
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ every user entry in a multi-user poll declaration. * Use the libmd functions for md5 under Free BSD? (Low priority.) +* More log levels? + Release Notes: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @@ -28,12 +30,12 @@ pl 3.9.7 (): * Complain and die if user tries to start fetchmail with options while a background fetchmail is running. * Various installation headaches are gone, INSTALL edited accordingly. -* Treat exim's 501 antispam response as equivalent to 571. Note: this - is temporary. The right thing is to get exim to return 571; I'm - working on it. +* Treat exim's 501 and (soon) 550 antispam responses as equivalent to 571. * Fess up to sometimes only counting header bytes in the progress messages. +* Man page updates, including removal of restriction on --syslog. +* You can now set --syslog in the .fetchmailrc file. -There are 257 people on the fetchmail-friends list. +There are 252 people on the fetchmail-friends list. pl 3.9.6 (Wed May 28 18:28:35 EDT 1997): * Fix the libc6 configuration stuff (thanks to Jesse Thilo). diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index b1c737c3..354322aa 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -453,8 +453,7 @@ This is primarily useful for debugging configurations. .PP The .B --syslog -option allows you to redirect status and error messages emitted while in -daemon mode to the +option allows you to redirect status and error messages emitted to the .IR syslog (3) system daemon if available. Messages are logged with an id of \fBfetchmail\fR, the facility \fBLOG_MAIL\fR, @@ -756,7 +755,7 @@ ticket at the start of each query instead, and send an arbitrary string as the password. .PP Specifying `kpop' sets POP3 protocol over port 1109 with Kerberos V4 -authentication. These defaults may be overridden by later options. +preauthentication. These defaults may be overridden by later options. .PP You can use the noise keywords `and', `with', \&`has', `wants', and `options' anywhere in an entry to make @@ -772,12 +771,13 @@ or reverse it by saying `user esr here is eric there' .PP For backward compatibility, the word `server' is a synonym for `poll'. .PP -There are currently two global option statements; `set logfile = ' +There are currently three global option statements; `set logfile = ' followed by a string sets the same global specified by --logfile. A command-line --logfile option will override this. Also, `set daemon' sets the poll interval as --daemon does. This can be overridden by -a command-line --daemon option; iin particular --daemon 0 can be used -to force foreground operation. +a command-line --daemon option; in particular --daemon 0 can be used +to force foreground operation. Finally, `set syslog' set\nds log +messages to syslogd(8). .PP Basic format is: @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ batchlimit { return BATCHLIMIT; } fetchlimit { return FETCHLIMIT; } logfile { return LOGFILE; } daemon { return DAEMON; } +syslog { return SYSLOG; } defaults { return DEFAULTS; } server { return POLL; } @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ extern char * yytext; %token AUTHENTICATE TIMEOUT KPOP KERBEROS4 %token ENVELOPE USERNAME PASSWORD FOLDER SMTPHOST MDA PRECONNECT LIMIT %token IS HERE THERE TO MAP WILDCARD -%token SET BATCHLIMIT FETCHLIMIT LOGFILE DAEMON INTERFACE MONITOR +%token SET BATCHLIMIT FETCHLIMIT LOGFILE DAEMON SYSLOG INTERFACE MONITOR %token <proto> PROTO %token <sval> STRING %token <number> NUMBER @@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ statement_list : statement /* future global options should also have the form SET <name> <value> */ statement : SET LOGFILE MAP STRING {logfile = xstrdup($4);} | SET DAEMON NUMBER {poll_interval = $3;} + | SET SYSLOG {use_syslog = TRUE;} /* * The way the next two productions are written depends on the fact that diff --git a/sample.rcfile b/sample.rcfile index 5023f60c..288bdf12 100644 --- a/sample.rcfile +++ b/sample.rcfile @@ -76,7 +76,8 @@ # Legal global option statements are # # set logfile = -- must be followed by a string -# set daemon = -- must be followed by a number +# set daemon -- must be followed by a number +# set syslog # # The noise keywords `and', `with', `has', `wants', and `options' are ignored # anywhere in an entry; they can be used to make it resemble English. The |