Up till now I've used fetchmail over pop3s only (with the internal ssl
option). Today I had to set up a fetchmail config to go over an ssh tunnel
(to a pop3 server). All is fine, except I say:
poll zion via localhost with protocol pop3 [...]
and then when I ask fetchmail about this server with:
# fetchmail zion
I get the message:
fetchmail: No mail for fischman at meat
Note that the server is identified as "meat", which is the real name of the
localhost, not zion (which is the real, remote server). I think that when
fetchmail gets asked to fetch from a poll label, it should report its
results with respect to that label. To this end, I've modified two lines in
driver.c, with the following diff:
true2poll.patch
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Is the current behaviour intentional? I think this alternate behaviour is
more intuitive, and would like to see it incorporated into fetchmail (at
least as an option, if not the default behaviour).
Cheers,
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Ami Fischman
usenet(_at_)fischman(_dot_)org