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@@ -1,41 +1,3 @@ - Complaints and Suspected Bugs: - -Reports from from Klee Dienes <klee@mit.edu> on the Debian bug list and from -fetchmail-friend Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@rosebud.sps.queensu.ca>: - -[KD1] If the local SMTP server disconnects while fetchmail is initializing -the connection (for example, because inetd answers the connection but -can't find the appropriate binary), fetchmail will wait forever for a -response from the server. - -(Hm. Possibly this is the same bug as DE2 below. It appears the server -timeout feature may be broken, but I have not been able to reproduce this yet. -It's hard to test without a customized server or a very overloaded or flaky -one. The one I use is too fast. :-)) - -[KD2] Also, fetchmail seems to be using a polling loop to wait for responses -from the server. This should probably be changed to a select()-based -mechanism. - -(Perhaps. This is a design change I'm not ready to do quickly.) - -[DE1] After starting - - fetchmail --syslog --monitor ppp0 --daemon 300 --timeout 30 - -I said 'fetchmail --quit' but that isn't logged. - -(I haven't been able to reproduce this. I ran `fetchmail -d 2 -N -v' -in one window and then did `fetchmail -q' in another, and the log -message "fetchmail: terminated with signal 15" did show up. What -happens when you try that?) - -[DE2] I had requested a timeout of 30 secs, but it didn't time out in almot - fifteen minutes - -(But fetchmail -V reports the timeout option set correctly. Are server -timeouts really broken? We must find a way to test this.) - Heads-up! The .poprc compatibility hack that allows your first user declaration @@ -58,6 +20,11 @@ features -- bugs -- +* Server-response timeouts were broken. Various symptoms of this problem + were reported by Klee Dienes <klee@mit.edu>, Dirk Eddelbuettel + <edd@rosebud.sps.queensu.ca>, Robert V. Schipper" <rvs@gol.com>, + and Steven Brown <swbrown@ucsd.edu>. + * George Sipe sent a fix for the --monitor code. There are 261 people on the fetchmail-friends list. |