[Fetchmail-users] fetchmail not polling multiple servers when IMAP IDLE used

[Jeremy C. <jd...@ko...>]

Hi, I'm hoping this is a config mistake or brain fart on my part, but
I've spent a lot of time looking at fetchmail(1) and can't find anything
that would explain this behaviour.

I'm using fetchmail 6.3.26 on FreeBSD 9.3-STABLE.

The following is in my .fetchmailrc:

set daemon 120

poll imap.server
	protocol imap
	username user password pass
  	idle
	ssl sslfingerprint "aa:bb..."

poll pop3.server
	protocol pop3
	username user password pass
	ssl sslfingerprint "cc:dd..."

The behaviour I expect from this, based on the fetchmail(1) man page, is
that because I'm using daemon mode, fetchmail should remain running and
keep an active IMAP IDLE connection to imap.server, but then
periodically (every 120 seconds) poll (via POP3) pop3.server.  These are
two completely different servers, just to clarify.

Well, pop3.server never gets polled.  Using "set logfile blah.log" then
looking at that logfile never shows the daemon never attempting to
communicate to pop3.server barring this one scenario:

If I reverse the order of the two sections (i.e. put the pop3 one first)
and start fetchmail, it polls pop3.server once -- and only once -- then
proceeds to do IMAP IDLE to imap.server from that point forward.  It
never re-polls pop3.server.

Things I've tried:

* Setting "interval 60" (or some equivalent) inside of the pop3.server
  polling block -- no difference (and fetchmail --configdump shows that
  the parameter changes from 'interval':0 to 'interval':60)

* Running "fetchmail" by itself, which should "wake up" the daemon and
  attempt polling from defined servers -- it never does, meaning it acts
  as if the pop3.server poll section doesn't exist

* fetchmail --configdump shows both imap.server and pop3.server, and
  both are 'active':TRUE

If I remove use of the IMAP IDLE feature, things behave as I'd expect.
(I see the "sleeping at {date} for N seconds" message in the log, etc.)

It's almost as if use of IMAP IDLE causes the daemon to effectively
ignore any other poll sections.

Thoughts?

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