110/995 syslogging: BUG found

[Jeff A. Earickson]

Gang,
A tip of the hat to David Champion for giving me a clue on how to
implement "POP login by user..." for port 110 and "SSL POP login by user..."
for port 995.  The trick is to use different config files for the
two entries in inetd.conf, which I was already doing:
pop3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd \
     /opt/maild/popper -S -f /opt/maild/qpop-110.config
pop3s stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd \
     /opt/maild/popper -S -l 2 -f /opt/maild/qpop-995.config
Then for the qpop-995.config file, uncomment and modify the "set log-login"
setting at the bottom of the file to do what I wanted.
BUG:  The syntax in the config files as destributed is wrong.  The
last line says:
# set log-login                = "(v%0) POP login by user /"%1/" at (%2) %3"
If you uncomment this line, then qpopper will barf with the following
complaint in syslog:
Expected comment or end of line; found "%" at line 710 of config file 
/opt/maild/qpop-110.config [pop_config.c:1554]

and the POP connection will fail.
It looks like file globbing/quote interpretation is getting in the way.
I got rid of this problem by changing the line to:
set log-login                = '(v%0) POP login by user "%1" at (%2) %3'
With single quotes, this config option works just fine.  Please confirm
this behavior on your system.
Jeff Earickson
Colby College