[imapfilter-devel]imapfilter: parse error in config file at row 5

[Lefteris Chatzibarbas]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 02:01:17AM -0500, Randy Perkins wrote:
> [...]
> 
> however if i have a blank line in my .imapfilterrc file
> I recieve the following error
> 'imapfilter: parse error in config file at row 5'
> 
> I am using RH8
> when i first started using imapfilter, i dont recall having this
> problem,
> i believe it is when i upgraded to rh8, that this problem started,
> as my original 7.3 copy of the file still had the blank lines in it.
> if i remove the blank lines, everything works well
>
> [...]

I think this is a bug in the version of glibc that RedHat 8 comes with.
Apparently, RedHat 8 shipped with a snapshot of the development version of
glibc, (that RedHat called 2.2.93).  At that time, the stable version of
glibc was 2.2.5 and currently it's 2.3.1.  My Debian unstable has
glibc 2.3.1 [0] and imapfilter works fine.

So most definitely this isn't a bug of imapfilter.


[0] The new version of glibc has a completely new regex implementation.