Re: [fetchmail-devel] [BUG] fetchmail hangs during pop3 pull after a mail with a null char

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

David Greaves <da...@dg...> wrote, in October 2004:

> It's been working for years with these occasional hangs that have been
> fixed by popping the bad messages and manually filing them. I finally
> had a bad message arrive when I was in a position to debug!
>
> Summary : fetchmail hangs during pop3 pull after a mail with a null char.
>
> The mail with a null char is pulled OK but then rejected by local
> Cyrus lmtp and bounced to postmaster via exim4.20
> The next pop3 pull then fails.
> I've made an effort to trace and I think the hang occurs due to a
> double call to SMTP_ok which is empty the second time. I am pretty
> sure the second call originates at sink.c line 1433.

David, could you try to reproduce the problem with fetchmail 6.3.2 and
see if the problem is gone?  The hang might have been related to LMTP
bugs or rather fetchmail 6.3.1 and older not properly talking SMTP any
more after having talked LMTP, so chances are the hang no longer occurs
with 6.3.2.

Thanks,

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Matthias Andree