Bug 42814

Summary:	Fetchmail complains when using "interface" option
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	chris
Component:	fetchmail	Assignee:	Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.1
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Description chris 2001-05-30 09:15:58 UTC

fetchmail-5.7.4-4 distributed with RH7.1 complains that the "interface"
option in the .fetchmailrc file is only supported under Linux and FreeBSD,
despite this being a Linux system.  I have in my .fetchmailrc:

  poll my.mail.host
   with proto IMAP and options interface "eth0/172.27.0.0/255.255.0.0"

but fetchmail says:

  fetchmail: interface option is only supported under Linux and FreeBSD

The fetchmail distributed with previous versions of RedHat supported this
option without problem

Comment 1 Nalin Dahyabhai 2001-06-26 06:31:47 UTC

The interface specification language is not supported when IPv6 support is
compiled in, and we have begun enabling that support.  The message in later
versions reads:
    fetchmail: interface option is only supported under Linux (without IPv6) and
FreeBSD

If you need the functionality, a rebuild of the source package with the
--enable-inet6 option on the %configure line is probably the best way to go.

Tagging as fixed in Raw Hide because the text message in 5.7.4 *is* incorrect.