[Httpmail-devel] New version of hotwayd

[Frank de L. <fr...@un...>]

Hi'all,

I made a new version of hotwayd (v 0.3), which I submitted to the 
hotwayd patch area for lack of access to the main upload area (I'm not 
the official project maintainer, so...). Changes are:

> 2002-05-03
>     Version 0.3 - Frank de Lange
>     -   Memory allocation errors made the program dump core in many cases.
>         Fixed there errors.
>     -   Started changing insecure functions to more secure versions (strlcat,
>         strlcpy, snprintf). Included strlcat and strlcpy source from OpenBSD.
>     -   Program was looping because of authentication errors. Made program
>         use Authorize: header only on explicit request from server to get
>         out of those loops... Outlook behaves like this, so this program
>         should do so as well...
>     -   Made program compile without warnings with -Wall
>     -   Fixed Makefile.in so it includes the xml2 header include directory
>         This needs the xml2-config program, which should be available on
>         any box which has libxml2 installed.
>     -   According to RFC 1939, a POP server should be able to handle
>         the RETR command immideately after entering the TRANSACTION
>         state. For this to work, we need to do an implicit STAT on the
>         mail store, otherwise RETR will fail. The STAT will also produce
>         the needed +OK response.

Go to the patch area of the hotwayd project on SourceForge:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=552215&group_id=25479&atid=384446

to read the announcement (nothing more than I put in this message, 
really), or download the code at:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/download.php?group_id=25479&atid=384446&file_id=22463&aid=552215

(the file should be called 'hotway-0.3.tar.gz', but SF's patch download 
mechanism messes up filenames...).

untar, configure and install (make install works, but it does not (yet) 
honour the --prefix argument to configure. It will always be installed 
in /usr/sbin. I just copy the file manually where I want it to be.

Oh, another thing. If you want to use hotwayd with fetchmail, you either 
have to use fetchall or hack the source to use httpmail_retrieve instead 
of the currently unsupported httpmail_top function. If you don't know 
what I'm talking about, have a look at commands.c in the tarball (last 
function in the file).

I have an experiment running with a fecthmail-driven hotwayd (fetchmail 
in daemon mode, 10 minute poll interval) coupled to a spam filter 
(spamassassin.sf.net). It seems to work OK, as it correctly marks 
Hotmail's 'member announcements' as spam :-)

Cheers//Frank
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