Chip Salzenberg <chip(_at_)valinux(_dot_)com>:
According to bergman(_at_)panix(_dot_)com:
I've been seeing a problem with fetchmail where it will hang when
trying to retrieve some messages from the server. This has
happened with multiple messages, with different versions of
fetchmail, and with POP3 and IMAP protocols. The problem is
intermittent, and seems to be dependent on the message (headers)
content.
Likewise. I brought up this issue months ago. Nobody could reproduce
it using different servers, so it never got fixed or even diagnosed.
I know this is going to sound like a cop-out, but the few previous times
I've chased down stuff like this it has generally turned out to be a
low-level networking screw or some individual bogus server.
It's *hard* to hang fetchmail from the inside. I wouldn't know how to
do it if I were actively trying -- the processing path is pretty simple.
--
<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>
Militias, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves and
include all men capable of bearing arms. [...] To preserve liberty it is
essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be
taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.
-- Senator Richard Henry Lee, 1788, on "militia" in the 2nd Amendment