[pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#211017: fetchmail: should support larger amounts of mails

[Matthias Andree]

tags 211017 + moreinfo
severity 211017 normal
retitle 211017 fetchmail: crash during mail fetch
stop

On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Rene Engelhard wrote:

> rene at frodo:~$ fetchmail -k
> fetchmail: removing stale lockfile
> 32938 messages (32064 seen) for 1545045 at pop.gmx.net (186756114 octets).
> Segmentation fault
> 
> ok, it seems that the number of mails is too high for a variable..

Please do not guess, but prove that the number of mails is the problem.
<http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#symptoms>

Whenever you see a segmentation fault that you can reproduce, please
obtain a stack backtrace so we can see where exactly the software crashes.
<http://leafnode.sourceforge.net/doc_en/FAQ.html#backtrace>

Alternatively, please see if 6.2.9-rc6 (or newer) still has a problem
fetching your mail and follow up with what you have found.

-- 
Matthias Andree