[fetchmail-devel] [Feature #4277] COMSAT-support in fetchmail

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Feature Request #4277, was updated on 2008-Aug-22 10:15
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Category: None
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Summary: COMSAT-support in fetchmail 

By: jhagg
Date: 2008-Aug-22 10:15

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This would really be nice to have.

I have procmail to do final delivery on my mail server,
and it sends
a COMSAT message to my desktop (where I read my mail)
which runs fetchmail against the mail server
to download my mail locally. (Yes, I want to download
my mail, not store
it on the server. :-)

I know that fetchmail can be awakened by SIGUSR1 and I
have written
a short perl script that listens on the COMSAT port and
kicks
fetchmail whenever a new mail arrives.

This makes e-mail delivery almost instantenous, I don't
have to wait
for fetchmail to time out.

So, would it be possible to make fetchmail listen on
the COMSAT port directly?
Then I would'nt need an extra process to manage. :-)



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