From cd46961ec2a691ad01a60af6a40314ded4c27e88 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 18:49:10 +0000 Subject: This version is good. svn path=/trunk/; revision=2309 --- design-notes.html | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'design-notes.html') diff --git a/design-notes.html b/design-notes.html index 0501f520..8a48ba6f 100644 --- a/design-notes.html +++ b/design-notes.html @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Design notes on fetchmail - + @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
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Design Notes On Fetchmail

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History

A direct ancestor of the fetchmail program was originally authored -(under the name popclient) by Carl Harris . I took +(under the name popclient) by Carl Harris <ceharris@mal.com>. I took over development in June 1996 and subsequently renamed the program `fetchmail' to reflect the addition of IMAP support. In early November 1996 Carl officially ended support for the last popclient @@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ Fortunately, I've only seldom seen a server that incurred significant wait time on an individual response. I judge the gain from this not worth the hideous complexity increase it would require in the code.

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Multiple concurrent instances of fetchmail

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Multiple concurrent instances of fetchmail

Fetchmail locking is on a per-invoking-user because finer-grained locks would be really hard to implement in a portable way. The @@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ careful to preserve.

nameserver handy. If not, the poll is skipped. If DNS crashes during a poll, the error return from the next nameserver lookup aborts message delivery and ends the poll. The daemon mode will then quietly spin until - DNS comes up again, at which point it will resume delivering mail.

+ DNS comes up again, at which point it will resume delivering mail. When I designed this support, I was terrified of doing anything that could @@ -530,7 +530,7 @@ all shaped the design in one way or another.

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Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
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