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diff --git a/fetchmailconf b/fetchmailconf index 2a684343..8f7541bb 100755 --- a/fetchmailconf +++ b/fetchmailconf @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ # # TO DO: Arrange for save and quit buttons to clean up all frames dependent # on the current ones. -version = "1.9" +version = "1.10" from Tkinter import * from Dialog import * @@ -1038,6 +1038,32 @@ Therefore, it is strongly recommended that you turn on `fetchall' on all user entries associated with this server. """ + +# Steve VanDevender <stevev@efn.org> writes: +# The only system I have seen this happen with is cucipop-1.31 +# under SunOS 4.1.4. cucipop-1.31 runs fine on at least Solaris +# 2.x and probably quite a few other systems. It appears to be a +# bug or bad interaction with the SunOS realloc() -- it turns out +# that internally cucipop does allocate a certain data structure in +# multiples of 16, using realloc() to bump it up to the next +# multiple if it needs more. +# +# The distinctive symptom is that when there are 16 messages in the +# inbox, you can RETR and DELE all 16 messages successfully, but on +# QUIT cucipop returns something like "-ERR Error locking your +# mailbox" and aborts without updating it. +# +# The cucipop banner looks like: +# +# +OK Cubic Circle's v1.31 1998/05/13 POP3 ready <6229000062f95036@wakko> +# + if string.find(greetline, "Cubic Circle") > 0: + warnings = warnings + """ +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 |