Hi everybody;
we are using vpopmail in a deployment which involves many programs.
We use maildrop for some (but not all) deliveries, dovecot for imap access,
some custom perl script to forward some mail.
Log story short, we cannot use (at the moment) vusaged to track the mail
usage.
I've looked the code and found that there were no option to disable the usage.
I can avoid to start the server, of course, but that will pollute the log
files with failure messages as the client cannot connect.
So I've wrote this patch to add a configuration option to vusagec.conf,
disabling the connection altogether.

Here is the patch:

--- ../vpopmail-5.4.28/client.c 2009-08-24 17:56:04.000000000 +0200
+++ client.c    2009-09-03 09:32:50.000000000 +0200
@@ -74,6 +74,15 @@
          fprintf(stderr, "client_connect: warning: config_begin failed\n");

    /*
+          Check if vusaged is disabled
+   */
+   str = config_fetch_by_name(config, "Global", "Disable");
+   if (str) {
+         fl = atoi(str);
+         if (fl == 1)
+               return 0;
+   }
+   /*
          Get timeout
    */

I hope that will be included in the next releases of vpopmail.

I will also be nice if (adding a return 0; at line 74, and a couple of curly
braces around that) vdelivermail wouldn't segfault if the config file is
missing or unparsable.
Now, at version 5.4.28, if vusagec.conf is missing, the code try to proceed
and segfault.

Thanks for the attention
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