Re: [Fetchmail-users] IMAP Idle in Daemon mode as non-root user

[Andrew C A. <fet...@ai...>]

On Wed, 26 Jul 2023, ns...@gm... wrote:

> is it possible to run IMAP Idle in daemon mode as non-root user? I don't get the point on how to configure the daemon interval if IMAP wants to keep the connection open for "Idle".
> Wouldn't the daemon interval conflict with the connection that is kept open?
>
> Could someone help me with my understanding?

Are you using daemon mode because you want to connect to several
mailboxes ? In IDLE mode you can only connect to one mailbox, so I
think the answer is "No, you cannot run IDLE and daemon mode in the
same process".

If you want to connect in IDLE mode, I would suggest a separate
FETCHMAILHOME directory, with its own config, and run a separate
           fetchmail -f <configfile>
process for each mailbox.

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Andrew C. Aitchison                      Kendal, UK
                    an...@ai...