Changeset afe4b852

Timestamp:

10/24/2019 10:49:23 PM (4 years ago)

Author:

Ken Moffat <ken@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 9.1, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, lxqt, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

6914a417

Parents:

420d60b

Message:

fetchmail-6.4.1

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@22298 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

Files:

• introduction/welcome/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• networking/mailnews/fetchmail.xml (modified) (7 diffs)
• packages.ent (modified) (1 diff)
• postlfs/config/users.xml (modified) (1 diff)

introduction/welcome/changelog.xml

@@ -46 +46 @@
       <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
+          <para>[ken] - Update to fetchmail-6.4.1. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;12436">#12436</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Update to Python-2.7.17. Fixes
           <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;12669">#12669</ulink>.</para>

networking/mailnews/fetchmail.xml

@@ -7 +7 @@
   <!ENTITY fetchmail-download-http "&sourceforge-dl;/fetchmail/fetchmail-&fetchmail-version;.tar.xz">
   <!ENTITY fetchmail-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY fetchmail-md5sum        "61b66faad044afa26e142bb1791aa2b3">
+  <!ENTITY fetchmail-md5sum        "c2b836a919cdd4ec53b06b70e0aa3e63">
   <!ENTITY fetchmail-size          "1.2 MB">
-  <!ENTITY fetchmail-buildsize     "14 MB">
+  <!ENTITY fetchmail-buildsize     "16 MB">
   <!ENTITY fetchmail-time          "0.1 SBU">
 ]>
@@ -59 +59 @@
     </itemizedlist>
 
-    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
-    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
-      <listitem>
-        <para>Required patch: <ulink
-        url="&patch-root;/fetchmail-&fetchmail-version;-disable_sslv3-1.patch"/></para>
-      </listitem>
-    </itemizedlist>
-
     <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Fetchmail Dependencies</bridgehead>
 
@@ -76 +68 @@
     <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
     <para role="optional">
+      <!-- hesiod was at ftp://athena-dist.mit.edu/pub/ATHENA/hesiod/ but that
+      is dead. Debian had 3.2.1, git hub has a very old 3.1.
+      libintl is part of gettext so enabled by default on LFS -->
+      <xref linkend="mitkrb"/>,
+      <!-- fetchmailconf is unmaintained so even with these deps it will be useless
       <xref linkend="python2"/>, built after
-      <xref linkend="tk"/>
+      <xref linkend="tk"/>-->
+      <ulink url="http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/linux/">libgssapi</ulink>
     </para>
 
@@ -88 +86 @@
     <title>Installation of Fetchmail</title>
 
+    <para>
+      Create a dedicated user for the fetchmail program.
+      Issue the following commands as the
+      <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
+    </para>
+
+<screen role="root"><userinput>useradd -c "Fetchmail User" -d /dev/null -g nogroup \
+        -s /bin/false -u 38 fetchmail</userinput></screen>
+
     <para>Install <application>Fetchmail</application> by running the following
     commands:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../fetchmail-&fetchmail-version;-disable_sslv3-1.patch &amp;&amp;
-./configure --prefix=/usr --with-ssl --enable-fallback=procmail &amp;&amp;
+<screen><userinput>PYTHON=python3 \
+./configure --prefix=/usr \
+ --enable-fallback=procmail &amp;&amp;
 make</userinput></screen>
 
-    <para>This package does not come with a test suite.</para>
+    <para>
+      To test the results, issue: <command>make check</command>.
+    </para>
+
 
     <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
 
-<screen role='root'><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
+<screen role='root'><userinput>make install                                  &amp;&amp;
+chown -v fetchmail:nogroup /usr/bin/fetchmail</userinput></screen>
 
   </sect2>
@@ -106 +118 @@
     <title>Command Explanations</title>
 
-    <para><parameter>--with-ssl</parameter>: This enables SSL support, so that
-    you can handle connections to secure POP3 and IMAP servers.</para>
+    <para>
+      <parameter>PYTHON=python3</parameter>: a version of Python is
+      <emphasis>required</emphasis>, but only used to install a module to allow
+      fetchmailconf to be run. That module is unmaintained and should not be
+      used.
+    </para>
 
     <para><parameter>--enable-fallback=procmail</parameter>: This tells
@@ -134 +150 @@
 
 <screen><userinput>cat &gt; ~/.fetchmailrc &lt;&lt; "EOF"
-<literal>set logfile /var/log/fetchmail.log
+<literal>
+# The logfile needs to exist when fetchmail is invoked, otherwise it will
+# dump the details to the screen. As with all logs, you will need to rotate
+# or clear it from time to time.
+set logfile fetchmail.log
 set no bouncemail
-set postmaster root
+# You probably want to set your local username as the postmaster
+set postmaster <replaceable>&lt;username&gt;</replaceable>
 
 poll SERVERNAME :
-    user <replaceable>&lt;username&gt;</replaceable> pass <replaceable>&lt;password&gt;</replaceable>;
+    user <replaceable>&lt;isp_username&gt;</replaceable> pass <replaceable>&lt;password&gt;</replaceable>;
     mda "/usr/bin/procmail -f %F -d %T";</literal>
 EOF
 
+touch ~/fetchmail.log       &amp;&amp;
 chmod -v 0600 ~/.fetchmailrc</userinput></screen>
 
@@ -192 +214 @@
         <term><command>fetchmailconf</command></term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>it will assist you in setting up and editing a
+          <!-- keep detailed description commented pending any feedback
+          <para>was intended to assist you in setting up and editing a
           <filename>~/.fetchmailrc</filename> configuration file, by using
-          a <application>Tk</application> GUI interface. It requires
-          <application>Python 2</application> and it must have the Tkinker
-          module available.</para>
+          a <application>Tk</application> GUI interface. It is written for
+          <application>Python</application> and the Tkinker module but is
+          unmaintained and labelled with a WARNING that it needs to be updated
+          for fetchmail 6.4's SSL options and other recent new options, and
+          for Python3 it will need to be run through 2to3.py.</para>-->
+          <para>
+            is an unmaintained GUI command to assist in creating a
+            <filename>~/.fetchmailrc</filename> configuration file and
+            should not be used.
+          </para>
           <indexterm zone="fetchmail fetchmailconf">
             <primary sortas="b-fetchmailconf">fetchmailconf</primary>

packages.ent

@@ -601 +601 @@
 <!ENTITY mailx-version                "12.5">
 <!ENTITY procmail-version             "3.22">
-<!ENTITY fetchmail-version            "6.3.26">
+<!ENTITY fetchmail-version            "6.4.1">
 <!ENTITY mutt-version                 "1.12.2">
 <!ENTITY alpine-version               "2.21">

postlfs/config/users.xml

@@ -92 +92 @@
         <row><entry>news    </entry><entry>36</entry><entry>36</entry></row>
         <row><entry>kdm     </entry><entry>37</entry><entry>37</entry></row>
+        <row><entry>fetchmail</entry><entry>38</entry><entry>  </entry></row>
         <row><entry>mysql   </entry><entry>40</entry><entry>40</entry></row>
         <row><entry>postgres</entry><entry>41</entry><entry>41</entry></row>