Comment 2 for bug 1924622

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 variable and configure each account at the same provider separately.

Bottom line, this is much easier to solve outside fetchmail than inside.
-> For me as the upstream maintainer, this is very near to a WONTFIX. Certainly at the end of the list of priorities.