I'm using fsockopen() to connect to a mail server and retrieve messages.

When retrieving the data, sometimes fgets() or fgetc() (tried both) will stall completely, and there is valid data being sent. It doesn't seem to have any timeout (I let it run for a long time) it just stalls.

Are there any known problems with fgets() using fsockopen() for communication? Is this an issue where it 'misses' the data and there is no timeout?


Thanks!

Michael Brown
mike@hbhosting.com