diff -Nur --no-dereference smeserver-fetchmail-1.6.old/createlinks smeserver-fetchmail-1.6/createlinks
--- smeserver-fetchmail-1.6.old/createlinks	2022-07-28 10:33:25.211000000 -0400
+++ smeserver-fetchmail-1.6/createlinks	2022-07-28 11:23:38.931000000 -0400
@@ -2,24 +2,21 @@
 use esmith::Build::CreateLinks qw(:all);
 # our event specific for updating with yum without reboot
 $event = 'smeserver-fetchmail-update';
-#add here the path to your templates needed to expand
-#see the /etc/systemd/system-preset/49-koozali.preset should be present for systemd integration on all you yum update event
 
 foreach my $file (qw(
-                /etc/systemd/system-preset/49-koozali.preset
+		/etc/fetchmail
+		/etc/startmail
+		/etc/crontab
 ))
 {
     templates2events( $file, $event );
 }
 #action needed in case we have a systemd unit
-event_link('systemd-default', $event, '10');
-event_link('systemd-reload', $event, '50');
+event_link('systemd-default', $event, '88');
+event_link('systemd-reload', $event, '89');
+event_link('fetchmail-migrate-fetchids', $event, '89');
 #action specific to this package
-#event_link('action', $event, '30');
-#services we need to restart
 #safe_symlink('restart',root/etc/e-smith/events/$event/services2adjust/service);
-#and Server Manager panel link
-#panel_link('somefunction', 'manager');
 
 #--------------------------------------------------
 # functions for manager panel
diff -Nur --no-dereference smeserver-fetchmail-1.6.old/root/etc/e-smith/events/actions/fetchmail-migrate-fetchids smeserver-fetchmail-1.6/root/etc/e-smith/events/actions/fetchmail-migrate-fetchids
--- smeserver-fetchmail-1.6.old/root/etc/e-smith/events/actions/fetchmail-migrate-fetchids	1969-12-31 19:00:00.000000000 -0500
+++ smeserver-fetchmail-1.6/root/etc/e-smith/events/actions/fetchmail-migrate-fetchids	2022-07-28 23:44:33.009000000 -0400
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+my $original_file = "/run/lock/fetchmail/.fetchids";
+my $new_file = "/var/lib/fetchmail/.fetchids";
+
+exit 0 if ( -f $new_file ) ;
+exit 0 unless ( -f $original_file ) ; 
+while ( -f /run/lock/fetchmail/fetchmail.pid ) {
+  print "waiting for fetchmail to finish";
+  sleep 10;
+}
+# ideally suspend fetchmail of wait for it to stop
+system("/usr/bin/mv $original_file $new_file") == 0 or warn "The move $original_file $new_file operation failed: $!";
diff -Nur --no-dereference smeserver-fetchmail-1.6.old/root/etc/e-smith/templates/etc/fetchmail/90fetchmail smeserver-fetchmail-1.6/root/etc/e-smith/templates/etc/fetchmail/90fetchmail
--- smeserver-fetchmail-1.6.old/root/etc/e-smith/templates/etc/fetchmail/90fetchmail	2022-07-28 10:33:25.177000000 -0400
+++ smeserver-fetchmail-1.6/root/etc/e-smith/templates/etc/fetchmail/90fetchmail	2022-07-28 11:17:18.575000000 -0400
@@ -322,6 +322,7 @@
                        my $size = $db->get_prop('qmail','MaxMessageSize') || '0';
                        my $mdbg='-l' . $size . ' -d0 --silent --syslog'; 
                        if($Debug eq "YES") { $mdbg='-l' . $size . ' -d0 --verbose --syslog'; }
+                       $mdbg .= " -i /var/lib/fetchmail/.fetchids "; # fix SME: 11979
 
                 		my $staticvalue  = "/usr/bin/fetchmail $mdbg --fetchmailrc - <<EOF\n" ;
                         $staticvalue .= "set postmaster \"postmaster\@$dom\"\n" ;