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| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | pop3.c | 15 |
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 7 deletions
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ fetchmail-4.4.9 (): +* 0.92 version of fetchmailconf. * Merging of command-line argument has been fixed (I think!). * Make fetchmail 64-bit clean (thanks to John Franklin <john@iptimaging.com>). * Fix man-page installation (thanks to Kevin Hawkins <khawkins@ncsa.uiuc.edu>). @@ -15,8 +16,9 @@ fetchmail-4.4.9 (): * CompuServe RPA and idfile fixes from Rich Beerman <rbeerman@pobox.com>. * Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@calm.imasy.or.jp> patched the address-rewrite logic to deal with addresses of the form "John Smith (foo) <jsmith@bar.com>" better. +* TOP argument reduced to 99999999, the most CompuServe will accept. -There are 277 people on fetchmail-friends and 216 on fetchmail-announce. +There are 279 people on fetchmail-friends and 216 on fetchmail-announce. fetchmail-4.4.8 (Tue May 26 12:30:58 EDT 1998): * Added 0.90 beta version of fetchmailconf. @@ -534,16 +534,19 @@ static int pop3_fetch(int sock, struct query *ctl, int number, int *lenp) * In that case, marking the seen flag is the only way to prevent the * message from being re-fetched on subsequent runs. * - * The line count passed is the maximum value of a twos-complement - * signed integer minus 1 (we take advantage of the fact that, according - * to all the POP RFCs, "if the number of lines requested by the - * POP3 client is greater than than the number of lines in the - * body, then the POP3 server sends the entire message."). + * We take advantage here of the fact that, according to all the + * POP RFCs, "if the number of lines requested by the POP3 client + * is greater than than the number of lines in the body, then the + * POP3 server sends the entire message."). + * + * The line count passed (99999999) is the maximum value CompuServe will + * accept; it's much lower than the natural value 2147483646 (the maximum + * twos-complement signed 32-bit integer minus 1) */ if (ctl->keep) gen_send(sock, "RETR %d", number); else - gen_send(sock, "TOP %d 2147483646", number); + gen_send(sock, "TOP %d 99999999", number); if ((ok = pop3_ok(sock, buf)) != 0) return(ok); |