Re: [fetchmail-devel] fetchmail 6.3.20-pre1 release candidate should fix STARTTLS hangs

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

On Tuesday, 24. May 2011 22:30:45 Matthias Andree wrote:
> just tried downloading the .tar.bz2 from a different computer, no
> troubles here.  What were the symptoms of the problem?

The download just stalled. The issue appears using konqueror only,
firefox downloads the file just fine. So let's forget about this.

> > I think I've seen a kind of unrelated bug: If you let the TLS
> > negotation time out on the "server side", fetchmail will proceed to
> > send the user name before shutting down: "USER xyz". Bug in the state
> > machine?
> 
> Probably.  I suspect now that we get socket-level errors in a few
> places, we're ferreting up such protocol bugs that used to be concealed
> behind a freeze or possibly an alarm timer followed by siglongjmp.

Makes sense.

> >> * fetchmail now supports an environment variable to suppress marking
> > 
> > Out of curiosity, why is this an environment variable
> > instead of a configuration option?
> 
> It was sort-of experimental and is much less effort that way -- and
> turned out to be non-functional.  Perhaps I should remove it (or at
> least the documentation).
> 
> First-class options need changes in half a dozen places, among them the
> lexer and parser (rcfile*.l and .y), the command-line parser, help
> output, manual page, fetchmailconf -- whereas the environment option
> just needs changes to the code in one place and to the man page.

Those easy "hacks" have a tendency to stay around forever :o)
If it's non-functional, it's worth removing I'd say.

Thomas