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

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

Am 05.11.22 um 19:06 schrieb Francesco Potortì:
> 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?
>
Hello Francesco,

sorry that the .netrc file is only read on startup, which kinda makes it
less useful in daemon mode.
It would make sense to re-read it whenever it has changed.

Feel free to file a feature request on Gitlab ->
https://gitlab.com/fetchmail/fetchmail/-/issues

Cheers,
Matthias