[fetchmail-users] Re: [fetchmail-announce] fetchmail 6.3.0 contained incompatible idfile change

[Simon B. <ba...@gm...>]

Matthias Andree wrote:
> Beginning with release 6.3.0, fetchmail needs not only need write access
> to the idfile ($HOME/.fetchids), but also to the directory holding this
> file. fetchmail 6.2.X and older versions got away if just the idfile had
> write permission.
> 
> The reason is that fetchmail 6.3.0 and newer now writes the ids to a
> temporary file, to avoid truncation of the idfile if running short of
> diskspace; a truncated idfile might lead to many duplicate messages,
> which might, in turn, aggravate the "low space" situation.

What about using one of the system-wide temporary directories instead?

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