[Bug 249860] mail/fetchmail: rc.conf overrides set daemon interval

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            Bug ID: 249860
           Summary: mail/fetchmail: rc.conf overrides set daemon interval
           Product: Ports & Packages
           Version: Latest
          Hardware: Any
               URL: https://sourceforge.net/p/fetchmail/mailman/message/37
                    112612/
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Only Me
          Priority: ---
         Component: Individual Port(s)
          Assignee: ports-bugs at FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: mandree at FreeBSD.org
                CC: chalpin at cs.wisc.edu
             Flags: maintainer-feedback?(chalpin at cs.wisc.edu)
                CC: chalpin at cs.wisc.edu

Corey,

https://sourceforge.net/p/fetchmail/mailman/message/37112612/
reported a non-obvious issue that our rc.d/fetchmail file essentially overrides
a daemon interval from the fetchmail configuration.

I have some ideas, but not thought this through, how to attack this.

- we might use fetchmail --dump and grep the Python output for the interval,
and give that precedence if set and other than rc.conf

- we might use syntax such as ${fetchmail_polling_interval+-d} to avoid passing
the -d parameter altogether, and remove the default (attention, can be
astonishing)

There may be other attack vectors vs. this bug.

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