Mandrake Linux 9.0 (stock install, with latest updates)
Fetchmail release 6.1.0+RPA+NTLM+SDPS+SSL+NLS
Fallback MDA: (none)
Linux simon.localdomain 2.4.19-16mdk #1 Fri Sep 20 18:15:05 CEST 2002 i686
unknown unknown GNU/Linux
Fetchmailconf version 1.43
Bug: fetchmailconf runs fine and makes the first .fetchmailrc
But on trying to rerun to amend configuration it dies:
"Can't read configuration output of fetchmail --configdump."
I traced this to an inability to execfile(tmpfile) about line 2042 of
fetchmailconf if the
output of configdump includes:
'antispam':''
in the user section, which it does if "listener spam-block codes" has not
been
set.
Workaround 1: always set a value for listener spam-block codes
Workaround 2: recover an existing .fetchmailrc by manually adding an
'antispam' entry to .fetchmailrc
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Simon Child