[fetchmail-devel] Re: BUG (?) fetchmail 6.3.2 hangs with 'idle' on OpenBSD

[Sunil S. <sh...@bo...>]

Quoting from Matthias Andree's mail on Wed, Mar 01, 2006:
> Sunil Shetye <sh...@bo...> writes:
> > Well, I am still "NOOP"ing. There is a problem in the current code.
> > What is happening is that gen_transact() is being followed by
> > imap_ok(). Internally, gen_transact() calls gen_recv() which calls
> > imap_ok(). So, imap_ok() is being called twice! The second call to
> > imap_ok() is incorrect as there is actually no "tag" to compare. So,
> > replacing imap_ok() by sleep() is the right thing to do.
> 
> I wonder. This code is ESR's original 
> 
> -----
> r3829 | esr | 2003-07-22 04:32:07 +0200 (Di, 22 Jul 2003) | 2 lines
> 
> Support faked IDLE.
> -----
> 
> (straight from SVN)
> 
> and has apparently never worked.

The credit for this goes to Chris Boyle. Surprising that there is no
mention in the logs and NEWS.

<http://lists.ccil.org/pipermail/fetchmail-friends/2003-July/007705.html>
<http://lists.ccil.org/pipermail/fetchmail-friends/2003-July/007713.html>

[On a side note, I tried searching for this string
"site:lists.ccil.org idle noop patch" on google and did not get the
above links. The same string gave correct results on yahoo.]

-- 
Sunil Shetye.