Bug#1029815: fetchmail: logfile option ignored since version 6.4.33-2

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Package: fetchmail
Version: 6.4.35-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

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Until version 6.4.33-2, it was possible to keep fetchmail output (-v -v)
in a user-specified logfile with these lines below in .fetchmailrc:
set logfile /var/tmp/fetchmail.log

This no longer works and syslog says logfile is ignored due to nodetach option:
fetchmail[1014123]: The nodetach option is in effect, ignoring logfile option.

This was not the case before 6.4.33-2 and the specified logfile was
populated everytime fetchmail was called, using the same, unchanged .fetchmailrc.
There seems to be no way to override this behavior and
keep verbose fetchmail output in a user-specified logfile.

fetchmail -V
This is fetchmail release 6.4.35+GSS+NTLM+SDPS+SSL-SSLv2-SSLv3+NLS+KRB5.
Compiled with SSL library 0x30000070 "OpenSSL 3.0.7 1 Nov 2022"
Run-time uses SSL library 0x30000070 "OpenSSL 3.0.7 1 Nov 2022"
OpenSSL: OPENSSLDIR: "/usr/lib/ssl"
Engines: ENGINESDIR: "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/engines-3"

Copyright (C) 2002, 2003 Eric S. Raymond
Copyright (C) 2004 Matthias Andree, Eric S. Raymond,
Robert M. Funk, Graham Wilson
Copyright (C) 2005 - 2012 Sunil Shetye
Copyright (C) 2005 - 2023 Matthias Andree
Fetchmail comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you
are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. For details,
please see the file COPYING in the source or documentation directory.
This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project
for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit. (http://www.openssl.org/)

Fallback MDA: (none)
Linux LOCAL 6.1.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.4-1 (2023-01-07) x86_64 GNU/Linux
Taking options from command line and /home/ME/.fetchmailrc
Poll interval is 330 seconds
Logfile is /var/tmp/fetchmail.log <<<<<<<<<<<<<
Idfile is /home/ME/.fetchids
Fetchmail will forward misaddressed multidrop messages to ME.
Options for retrieving from ME@MAIL ...

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/6 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C.UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages fetchmail depends on:
ii adduser 3.129
ii debianutils 5.7-0.4
ii init-system-helpers 1.65.2
ii libc6 2.36-7
ii libcom-err2 1.46.6~rc1-1.1
ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.20.1-1
ii libkrb5-3 1.20.1-1
ii libssl3 3.0.7-2
ii lsb-base 11.5
ii sysvinit-utils [lsb-base] 3.06-2

Versions of packages fetchmail recommends:
ii ca-certificates 20211016

Versions of packages fetchmail suggests:
pn fetchmailconf <none>
pn resolvconf <none>
ii sendmail-bin [mail-transport-agent] 8.17.1.9-1

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