Bug#416812: [pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#416812: fetchmail: fails to write bsmtp file and aborts with socket error

Sat Mar 31 10:03:21 UTC 2007

Reto Schuettel <reto at schuettel.ch> writes:

> fetchmail aborts all attempts to download messages from a mailserver
> with a 'socket error'.
> ... I'm not sure, but it seems like author swaped the two args size and nmemb
> by accident, so instead of writing N elements with the size 1 he writes
> ONE elment with size N :).

Indeed. Unfortunately my and Reto's research of this bug that I, too,
found when testing the BSMTP SIGSEGV fix overlapped.

Anyways, patch attached.

-- 
Matthias Andree
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