Chris Lloyd <strawberry(_at_)toth(_dot_)org(_dot_)uk>:
Hello there.
When applying syslog output with fetchmail using the "set syslog" option in
.fetchmailrc, fetchmail will write out the fetching messages to the syslog but
it will write out the .....s to stdout.
(I assume this isn't normal, I expected fetchmail to be silent when doing
syslog output (except for stderr messages))
--
blade:/wd1a/distfiles/ 9% fetchmail -a
.........................................................................................................................................blade:/wd1a/distfiles/
10%
Are you sure you're running 5.8.3? Here's th code that emits progress
dots. I don't see how it can produce the results you describe unless
you have showdots on.
/* write the message size dots */
if ((outlevel > O_SILENT && outlevel < O_VERBOSE) && linelen > 0)
{
sizeticker += linelen;
while (sizeticker >= SIZETICKER)
{
if ((!run.use_syslog && !isafile(1)) || run.showdots)
{
fputc('.', stdout);
fflush(stdout);
}
sizeticker -= SIZETICKER;
}
}
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