New applet: sendmail

Tito farmatito at tiscali.it
Sat Feb 2 19:40:52 UTC 2008


On Saturday 02 February 2008 19:48:33 you wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I'm now developing in parallel to sendmail a simple fetchmail (or,
> better to say, getmail) applet. It's aimed to just dump the content of
> remote mailbox to local Maildir.
> Since it shares much code with sendmail (signal handling, openssl
> helper IPC, and so on) I would like to ask the list some questions.
> 
> Will it be relevant to busybox?
> 
> If so, should I just combine both applets as, e.g., swaponoff in one
> file or just make shared code non-static?
> 
> If let them be combined, what is the best way to process options which
> are common for both applets (username, password, server, port, ...)?
> Is there a way to use getopt32 twice: one time for common options and
> second time for particular applet?


Hi,
maybe check the applet_name at startup and then

if (applet_name[0] == 'f')
	getopt32(.............................);
else
	getopt32(.............................);

Ciao,
Tito

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