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| -rw-r--r-- | fetchmail.man | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | socket.c | 6 |
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
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 @@ -4,6 +4,12 @@ * These were designed and coded by Carl Harris <ceharris@mal.com> * and are essentially unchanged from the ancestral popclient. * + * Actually, this library shouldn't exist. We ought to be using + * stdio to buffer the socket descriptors. If that worked, we + * could have separate buffers for the mailserver and SMTP sockets, + * and we'd be able to handle responses longer than the socket + * atomic read size. + * * For license terms, see the file COPYING in this directory. */ |