Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/03/02/21:42:25
Rui,
On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 10:12:20PM +0000, Rui Carmo wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 11:03:32AM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote:
> > However, so far no one else seems to have noticed this problem.
>
> I was under the impression that recv() bugs had been twiddled in
> 1.3.10... Or did the changes in recv() not address MSG_PEEK?
Hmm, I will look into this. It would be great if my patch just became
obsolete.
> I did not notice any corruption issues with my fetchmail build - but
> then, I did not transfer much more than a few megs of mail (around 25MB,
> I think).
Like I said, no one else seems to have this corruption problem. Note
that I spent quite a few hours one day last summer inside of gdb trying
to get to the bottom of this problem. I saw the read() return less
characters than requested even though the number requested is less than
or equal to what was returned from the recv(..., MSG_PEEK). Trust me,
this causes bad things to happen to your mail.
> I'm also not entirely sure that fetchmail is not the one inserting
> (or handing over, or whatever) the extra blank line upon mailbox creation
> (appends work fine...). I'll have to check later.
My WAG would be on the MDA (i.e., maildrop) not fetchmail. BTW, I have
had no such problems with procmail regardless of mailbox creation or
appending.
> Anyway, if you've been using fetchmail + procmail since September,
> what's keeping it from being added to the packages list? :) Is it the
> BIND issue?
No, it's not BIND -- it's just laziness on my part. I really would like
to contribute fetchmail and procmail. Unfortunately, it appears that I
have chosen unwisely selecting the packages that I currently maintain --
PostgreSQL and Python. These two seem to keep me quite busy.
Maybe I should have chosen packages that no one ever uses. You know...
Shelfware. That would have minimized my support efforts. :,)
> (I'd be glad to lend a hand, mind you...)
If you would like to contribute BIND, fetchmail, or procmail, please let
me know. I will supply you with my build recipes and help you in anyway
that I can.
Thanks,
Jason
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