Re: [fetchmail-users] [BUG] fetchmail daemon does not resume fetching after a network outage

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Uli Zappe wrote:

> >I wonder if the resolver would finally recover a long time after  
> >the network connection has been restored
> 
> When I encountered this fetchmail bug for the first time in real  
> life, fetchmail had stopped fetching mails for several *days*. So  
> even if it recovered after a "long time", this would be of no  
> practical value at all.

OK, good to know. Thanks.

> The other are actually 4 occurrences of freeaddrinfo() in  
> checkalias.c that, via several function calls, end up being called in  
> line 1430 in driver.c in the fetch_messages() call. Depending on the  
> method you'll use, these could be tricky to handle, because as I said  
> there are several function calls between the fetch_messages() call  
> and these freeaddrinfo() calls.

I'm not very motivated to fix code that is not of much practical value
(since it assumes inbound MX and POP3/IMAP server are the same)
and that is scheduled for removal.

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Matthias Andree