[Bug 1924622] Re: add a security feature to randomize the fetch schedule

2021-04-16 Thread Bill Yikes
Matthias, I appreciate the tip about FETCHMAILHOME, which seems to imply that multiple instances can run potentially at the same time. I will explore your suggested workaround. Since I access onion servers, I have a lot of wiring outside of fetchmail anyway. Note that I don't personally have a

[Bug 1924622] Re: add a security feature to randomize the fetch schedule

2021-04-16 Thread Matthias Andree
Bill, in your threat scenario, I think it best to avoid the daemon mode altogether, and then just use some external random delay tool (possibly some script language one-liner) to delay a one-shot fetchmail run. You can always set up separate directories, for instance, by way of the FETCHMAILHOME

[Bug 1924622] Re: add a security feature to randomize the fetch schedule

2021-04-16 Thread Utkarsh Gupta
Hi Bill, Thanks for taking out time to report the bug and help make Ubuntu server better. We appreciate the suggestions of new features but I am afraid that we work on the packaging of upstream source[1] for Ubuntu. Such new feature requests and suggestions are worth reporting upstream and once