Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 08:40:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/26053: fetchmail 5.7.6: translation of messages with `\r' Message-ID: <200104211540.f3LFe2T57902@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/26053; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> To: Ville Eerola <Ville.Eerola@vehome.pp.sci.fi> Cc: thierry@thomas.as, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/26053: fetchmail 5.7.6: translation of messages with `\r' Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 18:29:00 +0300 On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 12:14:23AM +0300, Ville Eerola wrote: > Peter Pentchev writes: > > On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 05:19:45PM +0100, thierry@thomas.as wrote: > > > >Fix: > > > Some messages in po/fetchmail.pot end with `\r\n' > > > => `\n' would suffice? > > > > Does the attached patch to the port solve your problem? It works for me, > > although all this time I've dismissed those warnings as just that - warnings, > > not serious errors. > > > > Does the port maintainer - Ville Eerola - like this fix? :) > > The patch itself seems simple, but I have a few questions about what > it does. Wouldn't it be better just to submit the fixes to the > fetchmail maintainers instead of trying to fix them within the FreeBSD > port? And btw. why does the patch change C-files? Third, are you sure > that the CR's are not there for some specific reason? *oof*. Forget this. I really need to check things before I post. Yes, the '\r' is needed - it is used when fetchmail adds headers to actual e-mail messages. Since fetchmail speaks SMTP, and SMTP mandates \r\n as a line terminator (qmail even complains about bare newlines), then yes, the '\r's are needed. G'luck, Peter -- Thit sentence is not self-referential because "thit" is not a word. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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