Re: [Fetchmail-devel] 6.5.0.beta4 works fine, but for a minute blemish.

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

Am 09.08.21 um 10:01 schrieb dv...@in...:
>   Many thanks for the rapid fix for CVE-2021-36386.6.5.0.beta4 builds
>  and works fine here, on devuan beowulf.
>
> One thing to report is that logging now omits newlines, making the
>  log more useful as wallpaper than a log. (Not vital here, as I only
>  use it as a progress meter, especially while downloading 9605 emails
>  the other day, after 8 weeks off-line, after network damage due to
> storms.)
>
> Today:
> $ wc /tmp/fetchmail_log
>    1  436 4270 /tmp/fetchmail_log
>
> It may be tangentially relevant that it is now necessary
>  to "touch" the logfile at each daily boot, as fetchmail no longer
>  creates it.
>
> These trivialities aside, I'm a rusted-on fetchmail fan, since last
> century, and grateful that it is so well maintained.

Erik,

sorry about the inconvenience and thanks for the support and your report.

Unfortunately the log misses more than just the newlines, namely also
further fragments such as messages sizes. I've cross-mailed my findings
in the message with subject "Re: FM v6.4.20 - concatenated log lines".

Regarding the logfile option and the need to have the log file in place,
6.5.0.beta4 documents that the log file needs to exist before launching
fetchmail - so if your log rotation erases it, reconfigure it such that
it leaves a blank file in place.

6.5.0.beta5 coming up soonish (but 6.4.21 gets priority).

Cheers,
Matthias