No longer needed - fetchmail will not be a part of IMP 5.0.

and my ugly mod ruins the login/maintenance screen because it sends 
text before the header is sent on that particular screen..

Hi,



When I receive large attachments (2Mb+) at my account, fetchmail a lot 
of times stops before the mail-fetch is finished.



Actually, I believe it is the browser that stops.  The reason is when 
you click on the "Fetch Mail" icon in the popup, the web server doesnt 
feed anything back to the browser at all until everything has finished 
fetching.



The browser simply times out and closes the connection because it 
doesnt receive any response.  This timeout have tested to vary from 
20seconds (IE) to up to 45seconds (FireFox).



This problem is described here with a sample solution: (look under 
Sjoerd van der Hoorn - 21 June) - I havent verified the sample solution.

http://fi.php.net/manual/en/function.set-time-limit.php



(I have made sure my PHP max-execution-timeout is 300 and checked with 
my host that APACHE's timeout is also 300seconds)



I have done some modifications but they are not very neat at all, the 
best way is to have something like a "progress bar" or something that 
spits out something every 5-10seconds.



My mods are cruide and doesnt fully work but kind of helps it a 
little: I fetch from two accounts so have so far inserted a line in 
Fetchmail.php (under imp/lib) approx line 299 (under the "foreach" 
loop within function fetchmail() ):



echo "<font color=white>Fetching mail for account: ".$val."</font><br>";

flush();



and at the same time swapped the output header lines in fetchmail.php 
(under imp) so the header is spitted out to the browser before 
fetchmail process begins.



Suggestion:

1. progress bar, or just "full stop", or

2. just flush out blank-spaces or something which are not displayed on 
the webpage but will keep the connection alive, or

3. anything else?



If you can display how many messages fetchmail is fetching and the 
total size right at the start that would be good too (??)



Thanks :)