On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 11:27:24AM -0400, Eric S Raymond wrote:
Neal McBurnett <neal(_at_)bcn(_dot_)boulder(_dot_)co(_dot_)us>:
I suggest the addition of a prominant notice in the release notes,
since affected users have to do something besides just installing:
If your .fetchmailrc file invokes sendmail, it should do
so with the "-i" option. Otherwise fetchmail can get stuck
on messages that contain "." on a line by itself.
The fetchmail man page has been updated to reflect this.
I have added appropriate material to the FAQ.
Thanks. Yeah - that is a more important place for it.... Here is the
new text:
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail/fetchmail-FAQ.html#R10
R10. Fetchmail is dying with SIGPIPE.
This probably means you have an mda option. Your MDA is croaking
while being passed a message. Best fix is to remove the mda option
and pass mail to your port 25 SMTP listener.
But sometimes that fix is not appropropriate (e.g. because I'm
avoiding a listener on port 25 for security or lack-of-permission
reasons).
I'd suggest adding:
For those times when using an mda is appropriate, if you're using
sendmail, the "-i" option to sendmail is important.
or something along those lines. The reason to call out sendmail's
'-i' here is because it hasn't been noted in the fetchmail man page
advice until now, so it is a more frequent problem.
Cheers,
Neal McBurnett <neal(_at_)bcn(_dot_)boulder(_dot_)co(_dot_)us>
http://bcn.boulder.co.us/~neal/
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