From: Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net>
To: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>
Cc: 37804@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37804: getmail service documentation error?
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 08:47:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r23aqyv4.fsf@cbaines.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191018070529.dnqp2qcnsimjoet4@pelzflorian.localdomain>
[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 569 bytes --]
pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de> writes:
> The documentation of the getmail service’s delete_after setting is
> confusing and appears to contradict upstream documentation at
> <http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/configuration.html>.
>
> I am not sure, but the code in the getmail file in the getmail source
> code also appears to call destination.deliver_message before deleting,
> in agreement with upstream.
>
> Can someone with knowledge check? Shall I push the attached patch?
The change and patch looks reasonable to me.
[-- Attachment #2: signature.asc --]
[-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 962 bytes --]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-18 7:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-18 7:05 bug#37804: getmail service documentation error? pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-10-18 7:47 ` Christopher Baines [this message]
2019-10-18 8:02 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-10-18 8:09 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://guix.gnu.org/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=87r23aqyv4.fsf@cbaines.net \
--to=mail@cbaines.net \
--cc=37804@debbugs.gnu.org \
--cc=pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).