From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Oct 23 13:27:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA08807 for ports-outgoing; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 13:27:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vlsi1.vlsi.fi (vlsi1.vlsi.fi [193.64.2.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA08801 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 13:27:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from layout.vlsi.fi by vlsi1.vlsi.fi with ESMTP (1.37.109.16/16.2) id AA249452432; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 23:27:13 +0300 Received: by layout.vlsi.fi (1.37.109.15/16.2) id AA099742432; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 23:27:12 +0300 Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 23:27:12 +0300 Message-Id: <199610232027.AA099742432@layout.vlsi.fi> From: Ville Eerola To: "Gary Palmer" Cc: freebsd-ports@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/1866: popclient flushes remote mailbox even with local failure In-Reply-To: <199610230230.TAA23847@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <199610230230.TAA23847@freefall.freebsd.org> 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-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Gary Palmer writes: > I think there is another bug with popclient and handling largish > (well, more than 10 or so messages) mailboxes. It came back with `bad > file descriptor' after 7 or so messages in recent testing locally > (against the qpopper in ports). I haven't had time to get into it with > gdb and find the problem yet. Hello! Why don't you guys try fetchmail. I have ported it to FreeBSD, and it handles just fine retrieving 20 mails in one pass ;-) It has already been included in the ports collection thanks to Masafumi NAKANE. >From the README: > The fetchmail program was originally authored (under the name > popclient) by Carl Harris . Eric S. Raymond, > took over development in June 1996 and subsequently > renamed the program `fetchmail' to reflect the addition of IMAP > support. See the distribution files NEWS for detailed information on > recent changes and NOTES for design notes. Stefan Esser found a small bug in it (related to a long hostname and sendmail delivery), which is already forwarded to the author who (hopefully) will include it to the next release due to soon. > Gary 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