[pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#361980: fetchmail: options 'limit' and 'fetchall' - add note in manpage

[Pedro Zorzenon Neto]

Package: fetchmail
Version: 6.2.5-12sarge4
Severity: minor

   Hi,

   In some POP3 servers I had a strange and intermittent problem with
fetchmail. It seems to be some race condition.

   If I use like this:

     fetchmail --limit 100000
     fetchmail --limit 500000
     fetchmail --limit 0

   (over slow links I can download smaller messages first)

   This sometimes has a side-effect. Sometimes (about 5 messages per
week) fetchmail thinks the message was already retrieved and skips; but
the message is new. I could not find a pattern about when this occours.

   I solved the problem adding the option '--all' to command line.

   I suggest to add to fetchmail manpage an explanation that if you use
'--limit' and sometimes a message is not retrieved, that you should try to
use '--all'; that will save a lot of debugging time from users.

   Thanks
   Pedro

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-k7
Locale: LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages fetchmail depends on:
ii  adduser                   3.63           Add and remove users and groups
ii  base-files                3.1.2          Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii  debconf                   1.4.30.13      Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils               2.8.4          Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                     2.3.5-13       GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libssl0.9.7               0.9.7e-3sarge1 SSL shared libraries

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