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@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ <table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr> <td width="30%">Back to <a href="/~esr">Eric's Home Page</a> <td width="30%" align=center>Up to <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a> -<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 2001/09/30 19:45:23 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 2001/12/14 03:30:59 $ </table> <HR> <H1 ALIGN=CENTER>Fetchmail Bugs and To-Do Items</H1> @@ -20,6 +20,12 @@ is now pretty mature and I have many other projects, so I don't personally chase obscure or marginal problems. Help with any of these will be cheerfully accepted. +<p>IDLE is not fully implemented. Fetchmail does not time out the idle connection +every 30 minutes or less as required by RFC2177. Some servers (including UW IMAPD +compiled without the MICROSOFT_BRAIN_DAMAGE option, as is the default) will drop +the connection after 30 minutes, resulting in a spurious socket error in your logs +and no mail being picked up until the next poll cycle. + <p>The UIDL code seems rather broken. It's a nasty swamp. Somebody who actually uses it should fix it -- every time I try I seem to make things worse.... @@ -67,7 +73,7 @@ bug-tracking page for fetchmail</a> lists other bug reports. <table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr> <td width="30%">Back to <a href="/~esr">Eric's Home Page</a> <td width="30%" align=center>Up to <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a> -<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 2001/09/30 19:45:23 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 2001/12/14 03:30:59 $ </table> <P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com"><esr@thyrsus.com></A></ADDRESS> |