Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 03:07:00 -0700 From: George To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Fetchmail: Cygwin socket read retry Message-ID: <20050526100700.GA1088@home> Reply-To: George Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20050526062930 DOT GA988 AT home> <20050526111953 DOT GB3112 AT tishler DOT net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050526111953.GB3112@tishler.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-IsSubscribed: yes On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 07:19:53AM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote: > > On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:29:30PM -0700, George wrote: > > I'm seeing single or often multiple 'Cygwn socket read retry' messages > > for each email message as it's being retrieving with fetchmail. Not > > certain whether this is a real problem (to date I've lost no email > > messages), but I thought it worth pointing out. > > The above is a caused be a known Winsock issue: Err ... you mean "Somebody set us up the bomb" ? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/02/22/all_your_base_are_belong/ > > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-08/msg00628.html > > which is why I submitted the following fetchmail patch: > > http://lists.ccil.org/pipermail/fetchmail-friends/2002-May/006259.html I've recently reinstalled Cygwin on a new machine (also Windows 2000) and this my first encounter with the problem. If it worries me enough, I'll apply the patch and call it a day. Thanks for the reply. Cheers. -- George -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/