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don't personally chase obscure or marginal problems. Help with any
of these will be cheerfully accepted.</p>
-<p>Matthias Andree writes: I believe fetchmail should not iterate
-over protocols when we have a DNS failure.</p>
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-> BTW, I found a bug in 5.9.7:
-> ./fetchmail -Nvd0 jads.asdkjaldsf.com
-> Enter password for emma@jads.asdkjaldsf.com:
-> fetchmail: 5.9.7 querying jads.asdkjaldsf.com (protocol auto) at Mit 20
-> Feb 2002 06:35:07 CET: poll started
-> fetchmail: 5.9.7 querying jads.asdkjaldsf.com (protocol IMAP) at Mit 20
-> Feb 2002 06:35:07 CET: poll started
-> fetchmail: couldn't find canonical DNS name of jads.asdkjaldsf.com
-> fetchmail: 5.9.7 querying jads.asdkjaldsf.com (protocol IMAP) at Mit 20
-> Feb 2002 06:35:08 CET: poll completed
-> fetchmail: 5.9.7 querying jads.asdkjaldsf.com (protocol POP3) at Mit 20
-> Feb 2002 06:35:08 CET: poll started
-> fetchmail: couldn't find canonical DNS name of jads.asdkjaldsf.com
-> fetchmail: 5.9.7 querying jads.asdkjaldsf.com (protocol POP3) at Mit 20
-> Feb 2002 06:35:08 CET: poll completed
-> fetchmail: 5.9.7 querying jads.asdkjaldsf.com (protocol auto) at Mit 20
-> Feb 2002 06:35:08 CET: poll completed
-> fetchmail: Query status=11 (DNS)
-> fetchmail: normal termination, status 11
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<p>IDLE is not fully implemented. Fetchmail does not time out the
idle connection every 30 minutes or less as required by RFC2177.
Some servers (including UW IMAPD compiled without the
in your logs and no mail being picked up until the next poll
cycle.</p>
-<p>The UIDL code seems rather broken. It's a nasty swamp. Somebody
-who actually uses it should fix it -- every time I try I seem to
-make things worse....</p>
-
<p>POP3 can't presently distinguish a wedged or down server from an
authentication failure. Possible fix: after issuing a PASS command.
wait 300 (xx) seconds for a "-ERR" or a "+OK" . If nothing comes
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