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Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 03:07:00 -0700
From: George <d1945 AT sbcglobal DOT net>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Fetchmail: Cygwin socket read retry
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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

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