Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 01:58:48 +0200 From: Ville Eerola <ville@vlsi.fi> To: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> 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 Message-ID: <199611182358.AA259621528@layout.vlsi.fi> 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>
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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
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