Re: [Fetchmail-users] WG: Running multiple fetchmail processes at the same time

[grarpamp <gra...@gm...>]

> (You can however cheat and set the FETCHMAILHOME
>        environment variable to overcome this setting,
>        but in that case, it is your responsibility to make sure you
>        aren't polling the same server with two processes
>        at the same time.)

Polling the same server with N processes at the same time is a
highly valid use case. There are various ways to do that today.
Having enhanced fetchmail config file semantics would help
streamline it.

Today if you're dealing with multiple accounts and servers in
various parallel polling modes / timings, including say a daemon
fetch and random check oneshots of the same account, you're almost
guaranteed to need end up writing configs on the fly and forking off
polling instances. Program instances will always be needed, but
config writing or multiple configs shouldn't be needed for them,
one config file and an address target should do.

The list archives are unfortunately not in a usable format but
there were some initial posts on this config stuff for 7.x a while back.