Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 177093
-v does not work anymore
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:20 EST
Description of problem: fetchmail -v does not print all exchanges to the terminal as it used to do, when "set syslog" is present. This is a regression. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): fetchmail-6.3.1-1 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Have a workable configuration (with set syslog) 2. Run fetchmail -v Actual results: Only a few empty lines are printed. Expected results: The IMAP exchanges are printed. Additional info: [zaitcev@lembas ~]$ cat .fetchmailrc # # We normally run in daemon mode set syslog # Over an ssh tunnel (ssh -L 2993:devserv.devel:993 sebastian.redhat.com) #poll localhost protocol imap port 2993 ssl fetchall # Over VPN # poll devserv.devel.redhat.com protocol imap ssl fetchall poll devserv.devel.redhat.com protocol imap port 991 ssl fetchall [zaitcev@lembas ~]$ The problem obviously has something to do with "set syslog". If it is not set in the .fetchmailrc, then exchanges are printed as before. However, the -v used to override "set syslog". The FC4 version works ok.
AFAICS the FC4 version (6.2.5.5-1.fc4) behaves exactly the same way: it logs the output to syslog only: $ LC_ALL=C ~/fetchmail --version|head -n 1 This is fetchmail release 6.2.5.5+IMAP-GSS+RPA+NTLM+SDPS+SSL+INET6+NLS+HESIOD $ cat ~/.fetchmailrc set no bouncemail set syslog poll localhost protocol pop3 port 11000 user "mitr" with password "foo" is * here $ ~/fetchmail -v ... outputs nothing, with data in syslog. Output verbosity and output destination are orthogonal, you can use --nosyslog to override the "set syslog" directive.