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diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index 5aaecd29..40a7475c 100644 --- a/fetchmail-FAQ.html +++ b/fetchmail-FAQ.html @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ <table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr> <td width="30%">Back to <a href="index.html">Fetchmail Home Page</a> <td width="30%" align=center>To <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a> -<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1999/07/31 21:41:50 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1999/08/01 04:01:40 $ </table> <HR> <H1>Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail</H1> @@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ IP address?</a><br> <a href="#G12">G12. Is fetchmail Y2K-compliant?</a><br> - <h1>Build-time problems:</h1> <a href="#B1">B1. Lex bombs out while building the fetchmail lexer.</a><br> @@ -101,6 +100,8 @@ IP address?</a><br> <a href="#R6">R6. Fetchmail hangs when used with pppd.</a><br> <a href="#R7">R7. Fetchmail randomly dies with socket errors.</a><br> <a href="#R8">R8. Fetchmail running as root stopped working after an OS upgrade</a><br> +<a href="#R9">R9. Fetchmail is timing out after fetching certain +messages but before deleting them</a><br> <h1>Disappearing mail</h1> @@ -1849,7 +1850,32 @@ option values that work:<P> In RH 6.0, the HOME value in the boot-time root environment changed from /root to / as the result of a change in init. Move your .fetchmailrc or use a -f option to explicitly point at the file. -(Oddly, a similar problem has been reported from Debian systems)<P> +(Oddly, a similar problem has been reported from Debian systems.)<P> + +<hr> +<h2><a name="#R9">R9. Fetchmail is timing out after fetching certain +messages but before deleting them</a></h2> + +There's a TCP/IP stalling problem under Redhat 6.0 (and possibly other +recent Linuxes) that can cause this symptom. Brian Boutel writes:<p> + +<blockquote> +TCP timestamps are turned on on my Linux boxes (I assume it's now the +default). This uses 12 extra bytes per segment. +When the tcp connection starts, the other end agrees a MSS of 1460, +and then fragments 1460 byte chunks into 1448 and 12, because +is is not allowing for the timestamp.<p> + +Then, for reasons I can't explain, it waits a long time (typically 2 +minutes) after the ack is sent before sending the next (fragmented) +packet. Turning off tcp timestamps avoids the fragmentation and +restores normal behaviour. To do this, [execute]<p> + +echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_timestamps<p> + +I'm still unclear about the details of why this is happening. At least +[now] I am now getting good performance and no queue blocking. +</blockquote> <hr> <h2><a name="D1">D1. I think I've set up fetchmail correctly, but I'm not getting any mail.</a></h2> @@ -2427,7 +2453,7 @@ inactivity timeout.<p> <table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr> <td width="30%">Back to <a href="index.html">Fetchmail Home Page</a> <td width="30%" align=center>To <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a> -<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1999/07/31 21:41:50 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1999/08/01 04:01:40 $ </table> <P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com"><esr@snark.thyrsus.com></A></ADDRESS> |