[pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#398565: fetchmail: SMTP c. timeout for heavy loaded (slow) MTA

[Václav Ovsík]

Hi Matthias,

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 04:33:57PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote:
> Hi Václav,
>
> where does this "30 second" timeout come from? I see the default client  
> timeout is set to 300 in tunable.h, and that is plenty.

After a couple of hours browsing the fetchmail code I found, that
timeout value is common for IMAP & SMTP! Grrr, the global variable
mytimeout is initialized from ctl->server.timeout, and mytimeout is used
in SMTP_ok() in smtp.c too. So the value of timeout per protocol
(timeout 30 in my fetchmailrc) I assumed to belong to IMAP protocol is
used also on SMTP sink side. Can't understand my blindness...

All of this was my fault, SORRY!

Best Regards
-- 
Zito