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

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

Am 19.11.2014 um 06:24 schrieb Jeremy Chadwick:

> Yup, I didn't actually manage to read that in the man page.  Bummer,
> although that conflicts with the following from section "GENERAL
> OPERATION":
> 
>   Each  server name that you specify following the options on the
>   command line will be queried.  If you don't specify any servers on
>   the command line, each 'poll' entry in your ~/.fetchmailrc file
>                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>   will be queried.
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^


> 
> Back to cronjobs, either that or maintaining two separate fetchmail
> config files + pid files, etc.  :/

Jeremy,

sorry about that.  In my opinion IMAP IDLE is somewhat useless due to
its limited applicability.  Either you bind resources on server and
client end keeping lots of connections open, or it simply won't work.
It may have been conceived as an INBOX monitor but once we start talking
about server-side filters, possibly sieve, that assumption seems
far-fetched...

Thanks for pointing out the inconsistency in the manual page, I have
seen do that, and the next fetchmail releases will error out if --idle
is combined with multiple mailboxes and/or accounts.

Cheers,
Matthias