From owner-cvs-ports Mon Nov 18 15:59:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-cvs-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA24146 for cvs-ports-outgoing; Mon, 18 Nov 1996 15:59:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.vlsi.fi (vlsi24.hermia.sci.fi [195.74.10.147]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA24136; Mon, 18 Nov 1996 15:59:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (from smap@localhost) by mail.vlsi.fi (8.7.6/8.7.3) id BAA21570; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 01:59:45 +0200 (EET) Received: from vlsi1.vlsi.fi(193.64.2.2) by mail.vlsi.fi via smap (V1.3) id sma021567; Tue Nov 19 01:59:43 1996 Received: from layout.vlsi.fi by vlsi1.vlsi.fi with ESMTP (1.37.109.16/16.2) id AA094231528; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 01:58:48 +0200 Received: by layout.vlsi.fi (1.37.109.15/16.2) id AA259621528; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 01:58:48 +0200 Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 01:58:48 +0200 Message-Id: <199611182358.AA259621528@layout.vlsi.fi> From: Ville Eerola To: Wolfram Schneider Cc: asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi Asami), wosch@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-ports@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/mail/popclient/patches patch-ac In-Reply-To: <199611180801.JAA18530@ole.cs.tu-berlin.de> References: <199611171936.LAA10949@freefall.freebsd.org> <199611172300.PAA24686@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> <199611180801.JAA18530@ole.cs.tu-berlin.de> X-Mailer: VM Version 5.93 (beta) under GNU Emacs 19.29.6 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-cvs-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Wolfram Schneider writes: > Satoshi Asami writes: ... > >I heard popclient was obsoleted by fetchmail. Can you fix fetchmail > >instead? > > fetchmail does not have this bug. Good to hear that. I use (and ported) fetchmail ;-) > >We were going to remove popclient. > > Argh! Don't do that! fetchmail is terrible slow and the author removed > some IMHO essential features. Tell me more about it. I haven't noticed any slowness of fetchmail, but on the other hand I do not (yet) receive the full FreeBSD mailing lists on my ISP's address... Since ports are so small, it doesn't probably do any harm if we keep also the popclient port. Do you know if anyone is still actively supporting it? And by the way, below is a short patch for annoying problem within fetchmail running in the daemon mode. Fetchmail has uninitialized microseconds field in timer repetition interval value, which it uses as the timeout for various tasks. This can lead bizarre failure modes in many places where system calls are made (they get interrupted). It will be included in the fetchmail-2.2.0 release when it comes available. It would be good if somebody could commit this for the time being as pathc-aa into the FreeBSD fetchmail port. Regards, Ville -- Ville.Eerola@vlsi.fi VLSI Solution Oy Tel:+358 3 3165579 Hermiankatu 6-8 C Fax:+358 3 3165220 FIN-33720 Tampere, Finland --- CUT HERE ------ CUT HERE ------ CUT HERE ------ CUT HERE --- begin 644 patch-aa.gz M'XL("`7WD#(``V9M+G!A=&-H`,V206N#,!B&S^FO^'89K:@8LUH;V6&''03; M0[&[2G$I"U@=FG@9[+VAM"P0^)(\7Y+WY34,`SY+7K/23G_1HLAA M6=2`,6"/DA?JJF(^]T:691TP%$O64BZXA#HS2DA+&<=#K\''IC^#9@GPHZ8> ME2AE*H`+OF-EO+]U7R$:[B]5MDPG/7;\+X1)\Q6:ZC:!(T M1K:6J,IZB"5#"?_.$QV3+1/IUV[#LT$,74SQE))>#'OD:1*G^'P2B>^8Q/>Z M+"+]=>T^0M>\1^CF,!Y?,;3]N\BR0^<%O.]\8T:G:1^F!VB2=Q3U!SP]/`.- #!``` ` end --- EOF ------ EOF ------ EOF ------ EOF ------ EOF ---