diff -Naur fetchmail-5.9.3.orig/driver.c fetchmail-5.9.3/driver.c
--- fetchmail-5.9.3.orig/driver.c	Fri Sep 28 20:30:58 2001
+++ fetchmail-5.9.3/driver.c	Wed Oct  3 10:09:00 2001
@@ -71,16 +71,11 @@
 void set_timeout(int timeleft)
 /* reset the nonresponse-timeout */
 {
-#if !defined(__EMX__) && !defined(__BEOS__) 
-    struct itimerval ntimeout;
-
+#if defined SIGALRM
     if (timeleft == 0)
 	timeoutcount = 0;
 
-    ntimeout.it_interval.tv_sec = ntimeout.it_interval.tv_usec = 0;
-    ntimeout.it_value.tv_sec  = timeleft;
-    ntimeout.it_value.tv_usec = 0;
-    setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, &ntimeout, (struct itimerval *)NULL);
+    alarm(timeleft);
 #endif
 }