Package: fetchmail Version: 6.2.5-12sarge4 Severity: minor Hi,
In some POP3 servers I had a strange and intermittent problem with fetchmail. It seems to be some race condition. If I use like this: fetchmail --limit 100000 fetchmail --limit 500000 fetchmail --limit 0 (over slow links I can download smaller messages first) This sometimes has a side-effect. Sometimes (about 5 messages per week) fetchmail thinks the message was already retrieved and skips; but the message is new. I could not find a pattern about when this occours. I solved the problem adding the option '--all' to command line. I suggest to add to fetchmail manpage an explanation that if you use '--limit' and sometimes a message is not retrieved, that you should try to use '--all'; that will save a lot of debugging time from users. Thanks Pedro -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-k7 Locale: LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages fetchmail depends on: ii adduser 3.63 Add and remove users and groups ii base-files 3.1.2 Debian base system miscellaneous f ii debconf 1.4.30.13 Debian configuration management sy ii debianutils 2.8.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii libc6 2.3.5-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libssl0.9.7 0.9.7e-3sarge1 SSL shared libraries -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]