aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2002-03-09 13:19:05 +0000
committerEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2002-03-09 13:19:05 +0000
commit044296c17ca98006994da9335db1f3d599bb5cdb (patch)
treee8dc66e2eeb1994d8ed8a9b6a5f8e721aa1e0a97
parent57500dd4aab9170c3aaeca82b80305aa63142a64 (diff)
downloadfetchmail-044296c17ca98006994da9335db1f3d599bb5cdb.tar.gz
fetchmail-044296c17ca98006994da9335db1f3d599bb5cdb.tar.bz2
fetchmail-044296c17ca98006994da9335db1f3d599bb5cdb.zip
Added a bug note.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=3590
-rw-r--r--todo.html29
1 files changed, 27 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/todo.html b/todo.html
index da660042..910d8f21 100644
--- a/todo.html
+++ b/todo.html
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
<table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr>
<td width="30%">Back to <a href="/~esr">Eric's Home Page</a>
<td width="30%" align=center>Up to <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a>
-<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 2002/03/09 12:33:09 $
+<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 2002/03/09 13:19:05 $
</table>
<HR>
<H1 ALIGN=CENTER>Fetchmail Bugs and To-Do Items</H1>
@@ -20,6 +20,31 @@ is now pretty mature and I have many other projects, so I don't
personally chase obscure or marginal problems. Help with any of these
will be cheerfully accepted.
+<p>Matthias Andree writes: I believe fetchmail should not iterate over
+protocols when we have a DNS failure.
+
+<listing>
+> BTW, I found a bug in 5.9.7:
+> ./fetchmail -Nvd0 jads.asdkjaldsf.com
+> Enter password for emma@jads.asdkjaldsf.com:
+> fetchmail: 5.9.7 querying jads.asdkjaldsf.com (protocol auto) at Mit 20
+> Feb 2002 06:35:07 CET: poll started
+> fetchmail: 5.9.7 querying jads.asdkjaldsf.com (protocol IMAP) at Mit 20
+> Feb 2002 06:35:07 CET: poll started
+> fetchmail: couldn't find canonical DNS name of jads.asdkjaldsf.com
+> fetchmail: 5.9.7 querying jads.asdkjaldsf.com (protocol IMAP) at Mit 20
+> Feb 2002 06:35:08 CET: poll completed
+> fetchmail: 5.9.7 querying jads.asdkjaldsf.com (protocol POP3) at Mit 20
+> Feb 2002 06:35:08 CET: poll started
+> fetchmail: couldn't find canonical DNS name of jads.asdkjaldsf.com
+> fetchmail: 5.9.7 querying jads.asdkjaldsf.com (protocol POP3) at Mit 20
+> Feb 2002 06:35:08 CET: poll completed
+> fetchmail: 5.9.7 querying jads.asdkjaldsf.com (protocol auto) at Mit 20
+> Feb 2002 06:35:08 CET: poll completed
+> fetchmail: Query status=11 (DNS)
+> fetchmail: normal termination, status 11
+</listing>
+
<p>IDLE is not fully implemented. Fetchmail does not time out the idle connection
every 30 minutes or less as required by RFC2177. Some servers (including UW IMAPD
compiled without the MICROSOFT_BRAIN_DAMAGE option, as is the default) will drop
@@ -68,7 +93,7 @@ bug-tracking page for fetchmail</a> lists other bug reports.
<table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr>
<td width="30%">Back to <a href="/~esr">Eric's Home Page</a>
<td width="30%" align=center>Up to <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a>
-<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 2002/03/09 12:33:09 $
+<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 2002/03/09 13:19:05 $
</table>
<P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com">&lt;esr@thyrsus.com&gt;</A></ADDRESS>