[pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#323027: fetchmail: lost patch: APOP and default fetchsizelimit

[Arnaud Giersch]

Package: fetchmail
Version: 6.2.5-12sarge1
Severity: normal

Hello,

I use APOP authentication to retrieve my mails with fetchmail.  Since
last security update, it doesn't work any more when there are several
mails to fetch:

  fetchmail: 4 messages for XXX at XXX (3180 octets). 
  fetchmail: cannot get a range of message sizes (1-4). 
  fetchmail: client/server protocol error while fetching from XXX 
  fetchmail: Query status=4 (PROTOCOL) 

A workaround is to add "fetchsizelimit 1" in the procmailrc
configuration file.

A quick diff between fetchmail-6.2.5-12 and fetchmail-6.2.5-12sarge1
shows that the following patch was lost between the two releases:

diff -Naur fetchmail-6.2.5-12/driver.c fetchmail-6.2.5-12sarge1/driver.c
--- fetchmail-6.2.5-12/driver.c 2005-08-14 00:29:02.000000000 +0200
+++ fetchmail-6.2.5-12sarge1/driver.c   2005-08-14 00:29:23.000000000 +0200
@@ -426,11 +426,8 @@
        /* for POP3, we can get the size of one mail only! Unfortunately, this
         * protocol specific test cannot be done elsewhere as the protocol
         * could be "auto". */
-       switch (ctl->server.protocol)
-       {
-           case P_POP3: case P_APOP: case P_RPOP:
+       if (ctl->server.protocol == P_POP3)
            fetchsizelimit = 1;
-       }
 
        /* Time to allocate memory to store the sizes */
        xalloca(msgsizes, int *, sizeof(int) * fetchsizelimit);


Regards,

        Arnaud

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-k7
Locale: LANG=fr_FR at euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages fetchmail depends on:
ii  adduser                     3.63         Add and remove users and groups
ii  base-files                  3.1.2        Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii  debconf                     1.4.30.13    Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils                 2.8.4        Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libssl0.9.7                 0.9.7e-3     SSL shared libraries

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