Tickets :: Comment on [#3159] browser timeout during long fetchmail sessions

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Comment	> 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 :) > >
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