Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 23:27:12 +0300 From: Ville Eerola <ville@vlsi.fi> To: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/1866: popclient flushes remote mailbox even with local failure Message-ID: <199610232027.AA099742432@layout.vlsi.fi> In-Reply-To: <199610230230.TAA23847@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <199610230230.TAA23847@freefall.freebsd.org>
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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 <ceharris@mal.com>. Eric S. Raymond, > <esr@thyrsus.com> 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
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