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Re: Fetchmail: Cygwin socket read retry
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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