Re: [fetchmail-devel] timeout not working for TLS

[Thomas J. <tho...@in...>]

On Tuesday, 27. July 2010 16:56:52 Matthias Andree wrote:
> > I recently had two cases of hanging fetchmail processes
> > during TLS negotiation with two different servers.
> 
> Might be a missing call to set_timeout() around the POP3 STLS/getauth()
> related methods.  Try wrapped SSL ("ssl" option) as a workaround, it
> might help, and if so, help debugging.

The issue only appears every other month or so. I also thought about adding 
debug output to set_timeout() so we could trace the last set timeout,
though this will only give a close approximation where that problem is.
(or none at all if the code mostly uses the same timeout values)

This morning I had a better idea: Enable core dumps and kill the task via 
"kill -11" if it hangs again. Then we'll know for sure where it's stuck.

I prefer not to add the workaround for now
as I'd like to trace the real issue.

Thanks,
Thomas