[Fetchmail-users] changing ~/.netrc does not restart fetchmail

[Francesco P. <Po...@is...>]

I know that modifying (or touching) ~/.fetchmailrc forces fetchmail (daemon mode) to restart and reload it.  This is useful and intuitive, so I had assumed that the same happens when ~/.netrc is changed.

However, I have a ~/.netrc whic is a symbolic link to ~/.authinfo, and apparently modifying ~/.authinfo does not force fetchmail to reread it.  I have to kill the fetchmail daemon and restart it to read the new data.

Is this normal?  Intended?  Am I missing anything?  Should I file a feature request?

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