#589711 mailfront: Inconsistent documentation-behaviour about where qmail backend tries to find qmail-queue

Package:
mailfront
Source:
mailfront
Description:
mail server network protocol front-ends
Submitter:
chafar
Date:
2010-07-20 08:15:04 UTC
Severity:
important
#589711#5
Date:
2010-07-20 07:58:37 UTC
From:
To:
This is an upstream bug, but it makes debian package to fail in some circumstances.

/usr/share/doc/mailfront/backend-qmail.html states that qmail-queue location is
expected where, first, $QMAILQUEUE says, or, second, as $QMAILHOME/bin/qmail-queue
names, while previously say that $QMAILHOME defaults to /var/qmail.

This is broken whithin the code: function data_start(), within backend-qmail, resolves
qmail-queue location _before_ resolving $QMAILHOME, so the 'second' assumption above
turns mistaken.