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

[Matthias Andree]

Hi Václav,

I'm tagging this bug fixed-upstream, as the next upstream release
increases the SMTP client timeouts to the minimum RFC-5321 recommended
values, i. e. 10 minutes for accepting the message after the data block
and EOM terminator have been written. This was the same as a BerliOS bug
I recently fixed.

Sorry that the documentation is unclear about this, I'll see to that.

The better solution though would be to configure or fix Exim to
acknowledge receipt much faster in such situations. The synchronous
nature of Exim and Sendmail in some configurations - possibly with
off-site forwards - is a major general problem; and the hold-the-world
nature of Exim's isn't good.

I've never seen the problem with Postfix...

Best regards
Matthias