Re: [fetchmail-devel] sleep(3) @ pop3.c

[Rob F. <rf...@fu...>]

sp...@po... wrote:
> I understand that You are trying to help users with bad pop3 servers.
> But I know my pop3 server (popa3d) and it will work fine without any
> delay after authentication.
>
> So, is there any way to add rc.file option which allow users to change
> this delay from 3 to any other number including 0?

The current development code (i.e. what will become the next release) 
doesn't sleep there at all unless a flag is set at compile time:

/* Disable the sleep. Based on patch by Brian Candler 
2004-04-19/2004-11-08,
 * accepted by Matthias Andree.
 *
 * Rationale: the server must have locked the spool before returning +OK;
 * this sleep just wastes time and hence, for modem and GSM CSD users, 
money. */
#ifdef WANT_BOGUS
    /*
     * Empirical experience shows some server/OS combinations
     * may need a brief pause even after any lockfiles on the
     * server are released, to give the server time to finish
     * copying back very large mailfolders from the temp-file...
     * this is only ever an issue with extremely large mailboxes.
     */
    sleep(3); /* to be _really_ safe, probably need sleep(5)! */
#endif


I'm not sure whether this is the Right Thing or not, but I'm pretty sure 
that massive single-file mboxes are NOT the Right Thing, much less POP 
servers that return +OK before they're really ready.

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