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@@ -81,6 +81,18 @@ fetchmail 6.3.10 (not yet released): * Non-delivery notice ("bounce mail") now mentions the original reason again, before the address list. This fixes a regression introduced in 6.3.0. * Several compiler warnings were fixed. +* The minimum recommended SMTP (RFC-5321) timeouts are enforced to leave + sufficient time for the listener to respond. Some synchronous listeners, + particularly when used with spam filtering and other policy enforcement + services, take extended amounts of time to process messages after the sender, + recipient, or data block and EOM line. This can cause fetchmail to not wait + long enough for the "250 Ok" and make fetchmail believe the message wasn't + properly delivered when in fact it was; fetchmail would then retry the + download next time and never make progress. + Fixes Berlios Bug #10972, reported by Viktor Binzberger. +* The ESMTP/LMTP client will now apply an application-specific timeout while + waiting for the EHLO/LHLO response, rather than wait for the server or TCP + connection timeout. # CHANGES * Make the comparison of the SSL fingerprints case insensitive, to |