[fetchmail-users] Re: Bug in imap_idle() with mail servers not supporting "idle"

[Brendan L. <bre...@ai...>]

I have been in communication with Casper; see my response to Matthias 
earlier in this thread.

Brendan

sh...@bo... wrote:

>I think this issue is similar to the one reported by Casper
>Gripenberg. Could you try this patch and report if it works for you?
>
>=========================================================================
>Index: fetchmail/imap.c
>===================================================================
>--- fetchmail/imap.c    (revision 4696)
>+++ fetchmail/imap.c    (working copy)
>@@ -633,11 +633,12 @@
>    if (ok != 0 || stage != STAGE_IDLE)
>        return(ok);
> 
>-   /* wait (briefly) for an unsolicited status update */
>-   ok = imap_ok(sock, NULL);
>-   /* again, this is new mail or an error */
>-   if (ok != PS_IDLETIMEOUT)
>-       return(ok);
>+   /* we used to wait for an unsolicited status update here with
>+    * imap_ok(). However, since no command has actually been
>+    * sent, there is no "tag" which can be used for comparison.
>+    * Just sleep instead */
>+   set_timeout(0);
>+   sleep(mytimeout);
>     }
> 
>     /* restore normal timeout value */
>=========================================================================
>
>  
>