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@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ content="Known bugs and to-do items in fetchmail" /> <tr> <td width="30%">Back to <a href="/~esr">Eric's Home Page</a></td> <td width="30%" align="center">Up to <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a></td> -<td width="30%" align="right">$Date: 2003/10/10 10:55:46 $</td> +<td width="30%" align="right">$Date: 2004/01/13 03:21:41 $</td> </tr> </table> @@ -83,6 +83,29 @@ failed" (leaving the message on the server, not putting it into found. (This is so you don't lose mail if you configure the wrong envelope header.)</p> +<p>Matthias Andree writes:</p> + +<blockquote> +<p>NOTE that the current code need optimization, if I have +unseen articles 3 and 47, fetchmail will happily request LIST for +articles 3...47 rather than just 3 and 47. In cases where the message +numbers are far apart, this involves considerable overhead - which +could be alleviated by pipelining the list commands, which needs +either asynchronous reading while sending the commands, or knowing the +send buffer, to avoid deadlocks. Unfortunately, I don't have the time +to delve deeper into the code and look around.</p> + +<p>Note that such a pipelining function would be of universal use, so it +should not be in pop3.c or something. I'd think the best approach is to +call a "sender" function with the command and a callback, and the sender +will call the receiver when the send buffer is full and call the +callback function for each reply received.</p> + +<p>See the ESMTP PIPELINING RFC for details on the deadlock avoidance +requirements.</p> +</blockquote> + + <p>The <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=fetchmail&archive=no"> Debian bug-tracking page for fetchmail</a> lists other bug @@ -93,7 +116,7 @@ reports.</p> <tr> <td width="30%">Back to <a href="/~esr">Eric's Home Page</a></td> <td width="30%" align="center">Up to <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a></td> -<td width="30%" align="right">$Date: 2003/10/10 10:55:46 $</td> +<td width="30%" align="right">$Date: 2004/01/13 03:21:41 $</td> </tr> </table> |