Re: [fetchmail-devel] Rodolfo's hang (from fetchmail-friends)

[Matthias A. <ma...@dt...>]

Brian Candler <B.C...@po...> writes:

> In the event of any dispute about whether it's fetchmail's fault or the
> server's, then I'd say the best thing to do is to get a
>     tcpdump -i eth0 -n -s1500 -X tcp port 110
> output, and see exactly what is going on.

Right, I'd forgotten about tcpdump.

> But if you're going to read the mail line-by-line then you can just as
> easily check for the CR LF . CR LF termination sequence!
>
> I can't imagine that any other major POP3 client does anything other than
> that, and I don't see why fetchmail should.

I don't intend to change the POP3 client before I know it is buggy.

I may need to change the IMAP client though, it goofs up reading
literals.

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