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21 <I>Mon, 21 Jul 2003 22:32:31 -0400</I>
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36 <PRE>Chris Boyle <<A HREF="mailto:fetchmail-friends@cmb.is-a-geek.org">fetchmail-friends@cmb.is-a-geek.org</A>>:
37 ><i> Here's a patch I've written: where IDLE is unavailable, it uses periodic
38 </I>><i> NOOP commands instead (every 28 seconds). Important behavioural change:
39 </I>><i> the option "idle" will now always result in *some* form of idle. I think
40 </I>><i> I read somewhere that some servers will unilaterally send status updates
41 </I>><i> if you just hold the connection open, i.e. NOOPs would be unnecessary,
42 </I>><i> but that doesn't seem to be the case anywhere I've tried. In any case,
43 </I>><i> this patch copes with updates both as a response to the NOOPs and
44 </I>><i> unilaterally sent between them. It functions exactly like normal idling
45 </I>><i> (N.B. like normal idling, it is single-folder only), and hopefully
46 </I>><i> includes all the appropriate changes to the documentation. Enjoy. :-)
48 </I>><i> <A HREF="http://cmb.is-a-geek.org/downloads/fetchmail-6.2.2+noopidle.diff.gz">http://cmb.is-a-geek.org/downloads/fetchmail-6.2.2+noopidle.diff.gz</A>
50 Nice work. This will be in 6.2.4.
52 <a href="<A HREF="http://www.catb.org/~esr/"">http://www.catb.org/~esr/"</A>>Eric S. Raymond</a>
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