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authorEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>1999-05-16 23:26:03 +0000
committerEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>1999-05-16 23:26:03 +0000
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Add qpopper 2.53 warning.
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diff --git a/fetchmailconf b/fetchmailconf
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@@ -1148,11 +1148,16 @@ I see your server is running cucipop. Better make sure the server box
isn't a SunOS 4.1.4 machine; cucipop tickles a bug in SunOS realloc()
under that version, and doesn't cope with the result gracefully. Newer
SunOS and Solaris machines run cucipop OK.
+
"""
if string.find(greetline, "QPOP") > 0:
warnings = warnings + """
This appears to be a version of Eudora qpopper. That's good. Fetchmail
-knows all about qpopper.
+knows all about qpopper. However, be aware that the 2.53 version of
+qpopper does something odd that causes fetchmail to hang with a socket
+error on very large messages. This is probably not a fetchmail bug, as
+it has been observed with fetchpop. The fix is to upgrade to qpopper
+3.0beta or a more recent version. Better yet, switch to IMAP.
"""
closebrak = string.find(greetline, ">")