#509952 fetchmail: Using idle option only checks the first mailbox.

Package:
fetchmail
Source:
fetchmail
Description:
SSL enabled POP3, APOP, IMAP mail gatherer/forwarder
Submitter:
Kurt Roeckx
Date:
2015-06-29 15:33:06 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#509952#5
Date:
2008-12-27 22:36:17 UTC
From:
To:
Hi,

I have several lines in my fetchmailrc file.  Some of them use imap
to retrieve the mail.  If I use the idle keyword on the first line
all other mailboxes do not get checked anymore.

What I would like to see is:
- all mail boxes with idle in idle it keep the connection open.
- The others get polled (every 300 sec).


Kurt
#509952#10
Date:
2008-12-28 00:07:56 UTC
From:
To:
Hi,
* Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be> [2008-12-28 00:27]:

I agree this behaviour is not really optimal.

Matthias, what do you think about that? Do I miss anything
and this is already possible?

Cheers
Nico
#509952#15
Date:
2008-12-29 10:57:43 UTC
From:
To:
But documented, quoting from the manual page:


Currently impossible. Fetchmail is single-threaded and does not
otherwise multiplex connections. It would require major changes to
the fetchmail structure so that 6.3.X will not see such changes.

HTH
#509952#24
Date:
2012-10-03 12:41:53 UTC
From:
To:
The wording is confusing as it suggests fetchmail is not able to idle on
multiple folders. It is not actually clearly written that this also
implies that it does not support running idle on multiple accounts.

In case user does not want to change the config file, fetchmail just has
to be started as many times as there is of accounts with a different
--pidfile for each instances.

It fills bad but it is perfectly understandable once user knows that
fetchmail isn't threaded.
#509952#29
Date:
2013-12-05 07:12:51 UTC
From:
To:
Hi everybody,

I found an interesting solution for this issue at the
Ubuntu-Bug-Tracker:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fetchmail/+bug/1021699

For each imap "session" a single configuration file is needed and a
single daemon will be started. Each single daemon could use the idle
command.

Not very nice, but well working for me.

Regards

Robert
#509952#34
Date:
2015-06-29 15:30:00 UTC
From:
To:
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