[pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#509952: fetchmail: Using idle option only checks the first mailbox.

[Matthias Andree]

On Sun, 28 Dec 2008, Nico Golde wrote:

> Hi,
> * Kurt Roeckx <kurt at roeckx.be> [2008-12-28 00:27]:
> > I have several lines in my fetchmailrc file.  Some of them use imap
> > to retrieve the mail.  If I use the idle keyword on the first line
> > all other mailboxes do not get checked anymore.
> 
> I agree this behaviour is not really optimal.

But documented, quoting from the manual page:

  --idle (since 6.3.3)
    (Keyword:  idle,  since before 6.0.0) Enable IDLE use (effective
    only with IMAP). Note that this works with only one folder at  a
    given  time.  [...]


Should I change the wording? If so, how?


> > What I would like to see is:
> > - all mail boxes with idle in idle it keep the connection open.
> > - The others get polled (every 300 sec).
> 
> Matthias, what do you think about that? Do I miss anything 
> and this is already possible?

Currently impossible. Fetchmail is single-threaded and does not
otherwise multiplex connections. It would require major changes to 
the fetchmail structure so that 6.3.X will not see such changes.

HTH

-- 
Matthias Andree
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