From 3a842b296792850080bae4a4fa0db900421cbc06 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 17:48:13 +0000 Subject: Better documentation. svn path=/trunk/; revision=438 --- fetchmail.man | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'fetchmail.man') diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index 56f75f9c..cc15fbbf 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -697,8 +697,10 @@ catch equivalences created by MX records). If it is an alias of the server, but the lookup fails due to network congestion or a crashed server, forwarding will not get done correctly. .PP -The multi-drop mailbox code was hard to test thoroughly and may have obscure -failure modes, especially in the presence of DNS flakiness. +Presently, +.I fetchmail +cannot handle a response longer than your machine's atomic read size +for sockets. .PP Under Linux, if fetchmail is run in daemon mode with the network inaccessible, each poll leaves a socket allocated but in CLOSE state -- cgit v1.2.3