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

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

Matthias Andree wrote:
> Rob Funk <rf...@fu...> writes:
> > 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.
>
> I'm willing to risk switching off this sleep() for reasons I posted to
> fetchmail-friends, particularly insufficient information what this used
> to be good for eight years ago. The software that needed the workaround
> might be dead since 2001 or so... we need to try to find out
> unfortunately.

Yeah, I'm not at all suggesting we put the sleep back unless we discover an 
in-use server that needs it.  And even then, detecting that server would be 
best.

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