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

[Frédéric M. <fre...@wo...>]

On Thursday 25 February 2010, Matthias Andree wrote:
> Am 25.02.2010 08:14, schrieb Frédéric Marchal:
> > On Wednesday 24 February 2010, Matthias Andree wrote:
> >> Am 24.02.2010 13:08, schrieb Frédéric Marchal:
> >> > 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.
> >
> > I was using the short form with fetchmail 6.3.9. So, it was either not
> > complaining about the invalid option or it was working. I tend to believe
> > it is the latter as our mails were processed as expected and we had
> > problems before that option was added.
>
> I think the parser misunderstood your rcfile, so it wouldn't complain.

It's my fault. Sorry. Now, I'm sure the short form never worked before.

I looked at the backup of the config file and found that it was actually using 
localdomains. Not the short form.

I must have truncated it while modifying the poll entry to split it over 
multiple lines and forgot about it.

Frederic