Hi friends of fetchmail,
Suddenly my mail provider introduced a minimal polling timeout. As
a result I was spamed by fetchmail with "Authentification failure"
messages. Since my PPP setup is far too complex to encourage me to play
with the interface or the monitor option I've added a "lockfile" option to
fetchmail 5.8.11 allowing me to specifiy a filename which must not exist
to allow polling of a certain mailbox.
Since I've added lines regarding the lockfile to ip-up/down and my
.fetchmailrc trouble is gone: INBOX and logfile don't contain any
complains about my provider's new policy anymore. :-)
Ok: Another way to implement this hack would be adding a
quietness to the preconnect flag: You could write something like
preconnect "test -e /var/run/fetch_my_mail"
without getting lines about the pre-connection command failed in your
logfile every five minutes. Well, but I think that this lockfile keyword
does the jobs in a more obvious manner....
Ciao,
Mathias
PS: I'm not really interested in learning how to make Tkinter.py work on
my box. That's why I left fetchmailconf untouched.
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Description: patch: explicit lockfile hack