Re: PATCH: Make IMAP mail sources more robust, was :Re: Working

[Gaute B Strokkenes <biggaute@uwc.net>]

On 29 aug 2003, biggaute@uwc.net wrote:
> On 28 aug 2003, biggaute@uwc.net wrote:
>
>> You're not alone, if it makes you feel any better.  I have a
>> similar problem every morning when I try to get ~500 new messages.
>> Gnus constructs a line of ~2000 bytes; the process then hangs
>> indefinitely.  I haven't quite tracked down what's going wrong, but
>> the prime suspect is uw-imapd not being able to cope with long
>> lines (we all know how robust c-client and friends are in that
>> respect) with some sort of openssl / emacs sub-process brokenness
>> as a more distant second.  Usually I just run fetchmail once every
>> morning.
>
> I have now determined that the problem definitely lies within
> openssl.  I can reproduce the problem by manually running openssl
> and logging in; telnet on port 143 does not exhibit the problem.
> openssl seems to misbehave in an interesting way if you send it too
> much data at once; this patch works around the problem by sending
> less data.

Interested parties can find my detailed analysis of the problem at:

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=207840

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