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-rw-r--r--NEWS6
-rw-r--r--daemon.c8
-rw-r--r--fetchmail.c9
-rw-r--r--fetchmail.h2
-rw-r--r--fetchmail.man11
5 files changed, 9 insertions, 27 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index a6cd90b0..6b4e062b 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -2,10 +2,6 @@
To-do list:
-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 popclient.c to deal with this).
-
Option to enable EMACS-like user folder versioning on each run.
-p option to come back?
@@ -18,6 +14,8 @@ Implement IMAP support.
* MDA arguments are now dumped when using the -V option.
+* Sendmail delivery from background seems to work now.
+
3.05:
* Experimental support for RFC1725-compliant POP servers with the UIDL
diff --git a/daemon.c b/daemon.c
index cfb6e53e..89ccdcd6 100644
--- a/daemon.c
+++ b/daemon.c
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
#include "popclient.h"
-static void (*my_termhook)(void);
+static void (*my_termhook)(int);
/******************************************************************
function: sigchld_handler
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ sigchld_handler ()
#endif
if (my_termhook)
- (*my_termhook)();
+ (*my_termhook)(SIGCHLD);
#if defined(HAVE_WAIT3)
while ((pid = wait3(&status, WNOHANG, (struct rusage *) 0)) > 0)
@@ -85,14 +85,14 @@ sigchld_handler ()
logfile file to direct stdout and stderr to, if non-NULL.
ret. value: none.
- globals: refers to the address of sigchld_handler().
+ globals: termhook, sigchld_handler().
calls: none.
*****************************************************************/
int
daemonize (logfile, termhook)
const char *logfile;
-void (*termhook)(void);
+void (*termhook)(int);
{
int fd;
pid_t childpid;
diff --git a/fetchmail.c b/fetchmail.c
index 54c15012..8ed8f67b 100644
--- a/fetchmail.c
+++ b/fetchmail.c
@@ -228,15 +228,6 @@ 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 (poll_interval && hostp->output == TO_MDA
- && strncmp("/usr/lib/sendmail", hostp->mda, 18) == 0)
- hostp->output = TO_FOLDER;
-
popstatus = query_host(hostp);
}
diff --git a/fetchmail.h b/fetchmail.h
index 5d071bb2..a65e3773 100644
--- a/fetchmail.h
+++ b/fetchmail.h
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ int closemailpipe (int);
char *MD5Digest (char *);
void reply_hack(char *, const char *);
void append_server_names(int *, char **);
-int daemonize(const char *, void (*)(void));
+int daemonize(const char *, void (*)(int));
#else
diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man
index 7aba6e50..f6eeca3e 100644
--- a/fetchmail.man
+++ b/fetchmail.man
@@ -542,15 +542,8 @@ default location of file associating hosts with last message IDs seen
(used only with newer RFC1725-compliant servers supporting the UIDL command).
.SH BUGS
.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
-The UIDL support for RFC1725-compliant servers is not yet well tested.
+The UIDL support for RFC1725-compliant servers without LAST is not yet
+very well tested.
.PP
No IMAP or RPOP support yet.
.PP