diff -up rsyslog-8.2412.0/plugins/imfile/imfile.c.orig rsyslog-8.2412.0/plugins/imfile/imfile.c
--- rsyslog-8.2412.0/plugins/imfile/imfile.c.orig	2024-12-06 13:42:53.855126447 +0100
+++ rsyslog-8.2412.0/plugins/imfile/imfile.c	2024-12-06 13:44:43.990211090 +0100
@@ -264,6 +264,7 @@ struct modConfData_s {
 				   Must be manually reset to 0 if desired. Helper for
 				   polling mode.
 				 */
+	sbool deleteStateOnFileMove;
 };
 static modConfData_t *loadModConf = NULL;/* modConf ptr to use for the current load process */
 static modConfData_t *runModConf = NULL;/* modConf ptr to use for run process */
@@ -2094,6 +2095,7 @@ CODESTARTbeginCnfLoad
 	loadModConf->timeoutGranularity = 1000; /* default: 1 second */
 	loadModConf->haveReadTimeouts = 0; /* default: no timeout */
 	loadModConf->normalizePath = 1;
+	loadModConf->deleteStateOnFileMove = 0;
 	loadModConf->sortFiles = GLOB_NOSORT;
 	loadModConf->stateFileDirectory = NULL;
 	loadModConf->conf_tree = calloc(1, sizeof(fs_node_t));
@@ -2153,6 +2155,8 @@ CODESTARTsetModCnf
 			loadModConf->stateFileDirectory = (uchar*)es_str2cstr(pvals[i].val.d.estr, NULL);
 		} else if(!strcmp(modpblk.descr[i].name, "normalizepath")) {
 			loadModConf->normalizePath = (sbool) pvals[i].val.d.n;
+		} else if(!strcmp(modpblk.descr[i].name, "deletestateonfilemove")) {
+			loadModConf->deleteStateOnFileMove = (sbool) pvals[i].val.d.n;
 		} else if(!strcmp(modpblk.descr[i].name, "mode")) {
 			if(!es_strconstcmp(pvals[i].val.d.estr, "polling"))
 				loadModConf->opMode = OPMODE_POLLING;