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| author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 1996-10-30 17:48:13 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 1996-10-30 17:48:13 +0000 |
| commit | 3a842b296792850080bae4a4fa0db900421cbc06 (patch) | |
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Better documentation.
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diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index 56f75f9c..cc15fbbf 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -697,8 +697,10 @@ catch equivalences created by MX records). If it is an alias of the server, but the lookup fails due to network congestion or a crashed server, forwarding will not get done correctly. .PP -The multi-drop mailbox code was hard to test thoroughly and may have obscure -failure modes, especially in the presence of DNS flakiness. +Presently, +.I fetchmail +cannot handle a response longer than your machine's atomic read size +for sockets. .PP Under Linux, if fetchmail is run in daemon mode with the network inaccessible, each poll leaves a socket allocated but in CLOSE state |