Bug#4667: popclient argument/poprc processing
> While trying out popclient 3.05 I found some bugs in the command line
> argument / poprc processing. The patches I made are included at the
> bottom of this mail. Some items addressed there:
Popclient is obsolete. You might want to pick up a copy of the sources
for its descendant, fetchmail, from my home page.
> o poprc options nokeep, noflush, nofetchall:
> These options didn't change the (true) defaults because bison
> silently ignores a 0 value of a token, and so flex returned a
> non-0 value for ``FALSE'' (token in poprc_y.y).
This bug was still present in fetchmail, thanks!
> o --norewrite (command line):
> The default was _not_ to rewrite sender's addresses because it's
> impossible in the current program structure to implement a
> non-zero default for a flag. I changed this flag to --rewrite
> (unset by default), so one can enable rewriting if desired.
I had already spotted this and fixed it in a different way.
> o poprc option mda:
> The internal variable char *mda_argv[] is limited to 32 entries,
> but there was no test for index overflow while parsing the mda
> option. While it's unlike to need as much arguments, it's of
> potential danger for a program that may be installed setuid
> root.
> There are some more problems with mda mentioned in the BUGS
> section of the man page now.
> The arguments are printed now on --version.
The mda option is gone from fetchmail -- its only delivery mode is
SMTP. This means your fetched mail comes to you through the system MDA
exactly like `real' TCP/IP mail.
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<a href="http://www.ccil.org/~esr/home.html";>Eric S. Raymond</a>
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