Philip Tait <pjtait(_at_)iee(_dot_)org>:
Fetchmail suddenly started rejecting emails forwarded from my work
account. I tried upgrading to 6.2.4, and the situation got worse - not
only did fetchmail refuse to download the messages, it deleted them!
A Google search indicates this is a recurring problem, so, in the
absence of an official fix, here is my quick hack to transact.c (6.2.4)
that fixes the problem for me:
--- transact.c.orig 2003-09-08 17:21:11.000000000 -0700
+++ transact.c 2003-09-08 16:00:56.000000000 -0700
@@ -492,7 +492,13 @@
line = rline;
memcpy(line + linelen - n, buf, n + 1);
}
-
+ if ((line[0] == 0) && (linelen > 0))
+ {
+ if (outlevel > O_SILENT)
+ report(stdout, GT_("fixed null line\n"));
+ line[0] = ' ';
+ printf("fixed null line\n");
+ }
/* check for end of headers */
if (end_of_header(line))
{
I hope this helps someone.
There's a cleaner fix. I've added code to smash out all NULs right
after the socket read.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>