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Re: [fetchmail]Patch: don't exit at a DNS-error at startup

2001-06-20 07:05:11
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Rob MacGregor wrote:
I think the correct behavior should be to print out an errormessage like 
that and skip this host but poll the others.

I think you'll find this was patched in 5.8.2:

* Don't cough and die from failure to resolve a skipped host.  Resolves
  Debian bug #92530

It doesn't. See Debian bug #99197.

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