For a home system, e.g. mine, where I have 3 or 4 accounts to check
(more when the kids get older, of course), the FD limitiation is not
significant at all, and of course IDLE is far nicer than polling,
especially on servers which limit how often you can connect, but have no
objection to IDLE use. So, personally I'd see removing IDLE as a
backward step. (as far as I can see, none of the servers I connect to
support NOTIFY). NOTIFY would presumably not help across multiple
servers, either.
I really like fetchmail, but it struck me as annoying that the default
initscript would only start the one daemon. I.e. for my use I don't see
the bug as in the binary but in the initscript.
OK, a re-write of the codebase to make it capable of handling multiple
concurrent connections would also solve it (sounds challenging, but I
haven't looked at the source in years) and possibly use far less
resources on a big system. I'm not in a position to fund such a project,
sorry.
I felt my patch to the ubuntu/debian initscript a reasonable work-around
until someone was.
For checking sanity of the relvant config files, how about this extra
bit of shell script?
POLLING=`sed 's/#.*$//;/^\s*[Pp][Oo][Ll][Ll]\s/p;d' ${CONFIG} | wc -l `
IDLE=`sed 's/#.*$//;/^\s*[Ii][Dd][Ll][Ee]/p;d' ${CONFIG} | wc -l`
if test ${POLLING} -gt 1 -a ${IDLE} -gt 0
then
echo WARNING: ${CONFIG} uses the IDLE directive but tries to access ${POLLING}
accounts. Processing will not pass the first account with an IDLE unless there
is a problem with the connection.
fi
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fetchmail: IDLE - multiple daemons should be started
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