[fetchmail-devel] [PATCH] fix listener mode [WAS: Re: RFC: Patch to fix Berlios Bug #5849]

[Sunil S. <sh...@bo...>]

Quoting from Matthias Andree's mail on Tue, Dec 13, 2005:
> > [OFFTOPIC] While debugging this, I found a weird bug relating to this
> > SMTP/LMTP mode. It seems that once fetchmail switches to LMTP mode,
> > there is no going back to SMTP mode. Try this simple fetchmail
> > command:
> >
> > $ fetchmail -v --smtphost /this/socket/is/down,localhost
> >
> > fetchmail sends LHLO to the localhost SMTP server. Note that SMTP
> > cannot be forced as the user could be running this configuration:

Here is a patch which fixes this issue. This basically removes the
global smtp_mode variable and passes the desired mode in every smtp
function.

You may compare the output of

$ fetchmail -v --smtphost /this/socket/is/down,localhost

before and after the patch.

-- 
Sunil Shetye.