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@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ fetchmail-5.1.0 (): * No more GIFs! RPM is now patent-encumbrance-free. * Fix yet another annoying qmail \n bug (thanks to Paul Gilmore). * There is now a documented return code 13 for termination on fetchlimit. +* Added qpopper 2.53 warning to the FAQ and fetchmailconf. There are 260 people on fetchmail-friends and 387 on fetchmail-announce. diff --git a/fetchmailconf b/fetchmailconf index c5b61131..7bfefe51 100755 --- a/fetchmailconf +++ b/fetchmailconf @@ -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, ">") |