[horde] FW: fetchmail

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Kevin Myer <kevin_myer at iu13.org>:

> 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?

I guess the latter, or at least they are not using IMP exclusively. I 
think it all boils down to a web frontend for some fetchmail 
functionality.

>> 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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Jan.

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