error during compile of mbxcvt

2003-02-02 Thread Harondel J. Sibble
When I run a make in the mbxcvt directory, I get the following make `cat ../imap/c-client/CCTYPE` -I../imap/c-client `cat ../imap/c- client/CFLAGS` -o mbxcvt mbxcvt.o ../imap/c-client/c-client.a `cat ../imap/c- client/LDFLAGS` mbxcvt.o: In function `mm_login':

Re: error during compile of mbxcvt

2003-02-02 Thread Mark Crispin
On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Harondel J. Sibble wrote: /usr/local/src/imap-2002b/mbxcvt/mbxcvt.c:357: the `gets' function is dangerous and should not be used. Should I be concerned about the last line? No, you should not be. It would be a concern if mbxcvt ran setuid to some other user or otherwise

Re: error during compile of mbxcvt

2003-02-02 Thread Harondel J. Sibble
On 2 Feb 2003 at 17:48, Mark Crispin wrote: It would be a concern if mbxcvt ran setuid to some other user or otherwise with elevated privileges. But it doesn't. About what I figured. However, that leads to a different question; why are you using mbxcvt? mailutil is bundled with imap-2002b

Re: error during compile of mbxcvt

2003-02-02 Thread Mark Crispin
On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Harondel J. Sibble wrote: Is there a major advantage to using mailutil over mbxcvt? mailutil is supported. mbxcvt is no longer supported. mbxcvt should continue to work as well as it ever has, but no further development will be done on it, and if you have a problem with it,

Re: error during compile of mbxcvt

2003-02-02 Thread Harondel J. Sibble
On 2 Feb 2003 at 18:54, Mark Crispin wrote: Those docs *are* the man page. Install them as the man page. AHHH! lightbulb clicks on mailutil copy INBOX #driver.mbx/INBOX Or just mailutil create #driver.mbx/INBOX Okay great, now I understand, last question, is there a simple way to run

Re: error during compile of mbxcvt

2003-02-02 Thread Mark Crispin
On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Harondel J. Sibble wrote: Okay great, now I understand, last question, is there a simple way to run this for all users in one go, so that I don't have to login as each user to do the conversion? At the current time, no. But you could write a shell script to do it... --