Re: fetchmail socket errors with CVS cygwin build from 30 July

["Dr. Volker Zell" <Dr dot Volker dot Zell at oracle dot com>]

>>>>> Corinna Vinschen writes:

    > On Jul 31 12:47, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
    >> On Jul 31 12:26, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
    >> > On Jul 31 11:38, Dr. Volker Zell wrote:
    >> > > Hi
    >> > > 
    >> > > In order to track down an xemacs segfault I build the latest cygwin1.dll
    >> > > from CVS (30 July). With that dll fetchmail couldn't connect to my IMAP
    >> > > server anymore. fetchmail works well with 1.5.21.
    >> > > 
    >> > > Here is what I get when running under verbose mode:
    >> > > 
    >> > > Jul 31 11:05:40 localhost fetchmail: PID 1740: awakened at Mon Jul 31 11:05:40 2006
    >> > > Jul 31 11:05:40 localhost fetchmail: PID 1740: 6.3.1 querying rgmemeaimap.oraclecorp.com (protocol IMAP) at Mon Jul 31 11
    >> > > :05:40 2006: poll started
    >> > > Jul 31 11:05:40 localhost fetchmail: PID 1740: socket error while fetching from Dr.Volker.Zell@rgmemeaimap.oraclecorp.com
    >> > > Jul 31 11:05:40 localhost fetchmail: PID 1740: 6.3.1 querying rgmemeaimap.oraclecorp.com (protocol IMAP) at Mon Jul 31 11
    >> > > :05:40 2006: poll completed
    >> > > Jul 31 11:05:40 localhost fetchmail: PID 1740: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
    >> > > Jul 31 11:05:40 localhost fetchmail: PID 1740: sleeping at Mon Jul 31 11:05:40 2006
    >> > 
    >> > Can you please strip that down to a simple reproducible testcase in C?
    >> 
    >> I just tried fetchmail over ssl myself and it works fine for me with the
    >> current Cygwin from CVS.  There must be something in your setup which
    >> might cause this problem.  I definitely need more information or better,
    >> a simple testcase.

    > Scratch that.  I was able to reproduce it when not using SSL.  The
    > problem is apparently related to calling recv(..., MSG_PEEK).  This
    > isn't the first time fetchmail gets problems with WinSock's MSG_PEEK
    > handling.  I can't solve the underlying problem, but I can fix the
    > additional problem which I introduced in the snapshot.  I applied a
    > fix to CVS.

It's fixed, thanks.

    > Thanks for the report,
    > Corinna

Ciao
  Volker


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