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

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

Matthias Andree wrote:
> > What about using one of the system-wide temporary directories instead?
> 

[ Nice explanation skipped -- thanks! ]

> 
> Debian for instance uses a fetchmail user for the system wide fetchmail
> daemon, home directory is /var/run/fetchmail, yet they use
> /var/mail/.i-forgot-the-UIDL-name for their idfile. If they used
> /var/run/fetchmail/.i-forgot-the-UIDL-name, everything would be fine. No
> need for ${TMPDIR-/tmp}.

I thought about adding something similar to the FreeBSD port, but I thought
of having one fetchmail instance per user (if that is possible). OTOH, this
will not work if there are many users.

Do you think, a system-wide fetchmail is worth the trouble? (I know, you are
biased since you are the current maintainer ;-)

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