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

[David G. <da...@dg...>]

Matthias Andree wrote:

>David Greaves <da...@dg...> wrote, in October 2004:
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>>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!
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>>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.
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>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.
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>Thanks,
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OK
I'm away for 2 weeks so I'll have to check when I return...

David

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