[Bug 1021699] Re: fetchmail: IDLE - multiple daemons should be started

[D J Gardner]

A suitable grep | wc pipeline could check and issue a warning, but the
whole point of my patch is that at the moment there is no way to have
more than one account if one of them is using IDLE.

There is no problem with having multiple accounts per daemon (config file) if no IDLE is in use.
If IDLE is used, then that connection will only terminate on a network error, and other accounts will not be queried more than once (depending on position in the file.)

At the moment the sysadmin can 'lock up' their fetchmail daemon by adding the perfectly legal 'idle' annotation to one command.
My patch does not stop this, but provides a mechanism to use it safely.

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  fetchmail: IDLE - multiple daemons should be started

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