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<h1 class="c1">Fetchmail Bugs and To-Do Items</h1>

<p>I try to respond to urgent bug reports in a timely way. But
fetchmail 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>

<p>POP3 can't presently distinguish a wedged or down server from an
authentication failure. Possible fix: after issuing a PASS command.
wait 300 (xx) seconds for a "-ERR" or a "+OK" . If nothing comes
back, retry at the next poll event and generate no errors. If we
get an -ERR then log an authentication failure.</p>

<p>It has been reported that multidrop name matching fails when the
name to be matched contains a Latin-1 umlaut. Dollars to doughnuts
this is some kind of character sign-extension problem. Trouble is,
it's very likely in the BIND libraries. Someone should go in with a
debugger and check this.</p>

<p>In the SSL support, add authentication of Certifying Authority
(Is this a Certifying Authority we recognize?).</p>

<p>Laszlo Vecsey writes: "I believe qmail uses a technique of
writing temporary files to nfs, and then moving them into place to
ensure that they're written. Actually a hardlink is made to the
temporary file and the destination name in a new directory, then
the first one is unlinked.. maybe a combination of this will help
with the fetchmail lock file."</p>

<p>Move everything to using service strings rather that port
numbers, so we can get rid of ENABLE_INET6 everywhere but in
SockOpen (this will get rid of the kluge in rcfile_y.y).</p>

<p>John Summerfield suggests that specifying a localname containing
@ ought to be treated as an smtpname option, with the domain part
removed for other purposes such as local-address matching.</p>

<p>The <a
href="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=fetchmail&amp;archive=no">
Debian bug-tracking page for fetchmail</a> lists other bug
reports.</p>

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