[horde] FW: fetchmail

[Kevin Myer]

Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:


>>>> So do we think it would be possible to run this from cron or something
>>>> similar so a user could check additional accounts with out having to
>>>> login.

This is where I'm confused.  You have to login to IMP to read your 
mail, so why
not use the maintenance task feature of fetchmail, that kicks it off on your
initial login?  Or are you not using IMP to read your mail and you want to
reuse the IMP fetchmail code to pull mail across?

> The fetchmail process *is* already an (optional) maintenance task. He
> is looking for a solution that works if the user is not logged in.

I know its a maintenance task but it only runs once per login.  To be truly
useful, it would be nice to specify how often the fetchmail component of IMP
polls the remote mailboxes and downloads new mail.  Other than removing the
delay of the initial download of messages when a user logs in, it seems like a
lot of extra work to run this out of cron, unless there's some benefit I've
overlooked.

Kevin

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Kevin M. Myer
Senior Systems Administrator
Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13  http://www.iu13.org