Re: [fetchmail-users] fetchmail 6.3.6-rc4 release candidate

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Volker Kuhlmann <hi...@pa...> writes:

>> 3. Does fetchmail re-probe capabilities in daemon mode for the 2nd and
>> subsequent polls? It shouldn't.
>
> What if fetchmail runs for 3 months, and the server changed 2.5 months
> ago? And with *ix, 3 months is nothing.

In that case, the way out is to have fetchmail re-execute itself.  To
achieve that, just touch the run control file ($HOME/.fetchmailrc, for
instance) - if the mtime increases, fetchmail restarts.

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Matthias Andree