Someone on our local lug mailing list had a problem with sendmail,
so his fetchmail wasn't able to connect to the listener. The error
message he got was:

fetchmail: timeout after 134661752 seconds waiting for listener to respond.

which is obviously preposterous. The patch attached fixes this issue.

--- fetchmail-5.3.1/driver.c    Mon Mar  6 09:21:29 2000
+++ fetchmail-5.3.1.patched/driver.c    Wed Jan 31 02:20:13 2001
@@ -1503,7 +1503,7 @@
                       ctl->mda ? "MDA" : "SMTP");
            else if (phase == LISTENER_WAIT)
                report(stdout,
-                      _("timeout after %d seconds waiting for listener to respond.\n"));
+                      _("timeout after %d seconds waiting for listener to respond.\n", ctl->server.timeout));
            else
                report(stdout,
                       _("timeout after %d seconds.\n"), ctl->server.timeout);