[pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#559008: fetchmail: Idle option doesn't take effect

[Jason White]

Package: fetchmail
Version: 6.3.9~rc2-7
Severity: normal


The idle option used to work but it no longer does, and (having just noticed
it) I don't know when the problem started. I haven't changed my ~/.fetchmailrc
configuration.

The symptom is that even with the idle keyword specified in the user options,
fetchmail doesn't hold the connection open to the IMAP server.

I am using IMAP over an ssh link, i.e.,
plugin "ssh -C %h /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap"

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31.5 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages fetchmail depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.111      add and remove users and groups
ii  debianutils                   3.2.2      Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                         2.10.2-2   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcomerr2                    1.41.9-1   common error description library
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2              1.7+dfsg-3 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k
ii  libk5crypto3                  1.7+dfsg-3 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - C
ii  libkrb5-3                     1.7+dfsg-3 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libssl0.9.8                   0.9.8k-7   SSL shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-23     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

Versions of packages fetchmail recommends:
ii  ca-certificates               20090814   Common CA certificates

Versions of packages fetchmail suggests:
pn  fetchmailconf                 <none>     (no description available)
pn  resolvconf                    <none>     (no description available)
ii  sendmail-bin [mail-transport- 8.14.3-9   powerful, efficient, and scalable 

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