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

[Matthias Andree]

Jason White schrieb:
> 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.

http://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-FAQ.html#G3 (the init-script seems to
support a debug-run parameter which will do similar things).

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

1. Does your ssh connection last long enough, or will it terminate prematurely
because there is no traffic, and/or from interaction with statefule firewalls
and thereabouts?

2. Are you sure the remote command is the right one? It would seem that "dovecot
--exec-mail imap" is the right way to do it.