Re: [fetchmail-devel] fetchmail 6.3.15-beta1 beta release with "bad-header pass" feature

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Am 24.02.2010 13:08, schrieb Frédéric Marchal:
> On Wednesday 24 February 2010, Matthias Andree wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I am asking interested fetchmail users to test a BETA release of
>> fetchmail.  This beta1 has the long-desired feature to ignore bad
>> headers in messages and pass them on.  Note that this features is OFF BY
>> DEFAULT and YOU need to turn it on explicitly by command line or rcfile.
>>
>> The beta software is available from:
>> <http://home.pages.de/~mandree/fetchmail/>
> 
> Two really minor observations so far.
> 
> The localdomains option cannot be shortened as local as specified in the man 
> page (that may not be new, I'm coming from 6.3.9).

That's a good catch. The abbreviated form has never worked - according to "git
annotate", it was already broken when it was added by ESR on 1997-01-09, however
the fix is simple: change "local(domains)" in rcfile_l.l to "local(domains)?"
and recompile. You need flex installed.

> If bad-headers pass is set after a user option, fetchmail complains 
> with "server option after user options at pass". That's a little bit 
> confusing if password is shortened as pass too.

Also a good catch.  I'll change this to accept.  The current lexer/parser
wouldn't have treated this properly in all circumstances anyways because "pass"
can't be mapped to two tokens internally.

I think there will be another beta release or release candidate before 6.3.15...

Thanks for your tests and updating the French translation!

The changes have been committed and pushed to Git. (I have received, but not yet
committed, the Czech and Italian translation updates.)

Happy fetching,

-- 
Matthias Andree