Hangs at "Getting number of messages..."

[Steve Wendt]

On Wed, 05 Apr 2000 10:53:30 +0100 (BST), Simon Bowring wrote:

>How often do you poll the mail server?  I have heard talk
>of problems with some older linux tcp/ip stacks if you poll 
>for mail too often (more often than about once every 30s 
>ISTR).  I cannot confirm the truth of this!

130s.  As Ralph pointed out, many people have reported this.

I think there are 2 different bugs here:  
1) timed fetches sometimes stop for no reason, and will start again
after a manual fetch is initiated.
2) fetches that are interrupted for whatever reason cause all subsequent
fetch attempts to fail (i.e. the subject line).


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