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 <H1 ALIGN=CENTER>Fetchmail Bugs and To-Do Items</H1>
@@ -20,6 +20,12 @@ is now pretty mature and I have many other projects, so I don't
 personally chase obscure or marginal problems.  Help with any of these
 will be cheerfully accepted.
 
+<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 MICROSOFT_BRAIN_DAMAGE option, as is the default) will drop
+the connection after 30 minutes, resulting in a spurious socket error in your logs
+and no mail being picked up until the next poll cycle.
+
 <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....
@@ -67,7 +73,7 @@ bug-tracking page for fetchmail</a> lists other bug reports.
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 <P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com">&lt;esr@thyrsus.com&gt;</A></ADDRESS>