I'm the author of this code and only just found this bug-report at Ubuntu. What should happen is something like this:
### ./ because I just checked out rev 69 of the code % ./sieve-connect.pl Connection to <[localhost]:sieve(4190)> failed. That's because if you set $IMAP_SERVER in the environment, then when invoked with no arguments it connects straight in, so the "just connect to best derived destination" is the default behaviour. I can't reproduce this upstream (non-Ubuntu) and the error message is inside one of the dependent Perl modules, referencing a variable that's not part of my code, so I think that this is a bug in one of the Perl libraries, at a particular point in time. "sieve-connect --debug --version" will tell you the versions of the main libraries it depends upon; for me, I see: Module IO::Socket::INET6 Version 2.69 On an Oneiric VM, I see: Module IO::Socket::INET6 Version 2.65 and the correct error message, no loop. Looking through http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/SHLOMIF/IO-Socket- INET6-2.69/ChangeLog I don't see anything which appears to be relevant. So for now I'm going to pass on making any changes, since it looks like a bug in a version of the code I can't identify, already fixed in more recent versions of that code, and where I've no idea what I might be able to do to work around it for the bad library versions. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/724264 Title: sieve-connect doesn't like to be called without parameters To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sieve-connect/+bug/724264/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
