Re: [fetchmail-users] query state=2 (SOCKET)

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

"Roberto Meyer" <rob...@gm...> writes:

> I'm really tired about it... I think I'll put my effort in testing the
> ISP and hosting service... fetchmail has a rock solid reputation and I
> think it's not fair for it to be the first suspect of this mistery ;-)

Well, you aren't the first, Wikipedia used to link several critics of
fetchmail, and some of them have, although exaggerated, a reasonable
amount of truth in them -- some of the shortcomings have been resolved
since those articles appeared though, or are at least on the plan --
I do not agree with some of the decisions ESR made, but I cannot change
everything over night. One reason is the lack of time, another that
fetchmail is stable code that cannot change radically with patchlevel
releases... and the 6.4 round hasn't really opened yet.

There IS 6.4 stuff on the trunk but I think I'll ditch that and copy 6.3
later, probably a while after 6.3.5 if no new problems crop up with
6.3.5 (which is also a few more weeks out probably) since redoing the
few 6.3.0 -> 6.4 changes will probably be easier than porting 6.3.5 back
onto the trunk... Subversion isn't too good at picking cherries.

-- 
Matthias Andree