[horde] FW: fetchmail

[alan walters]

I would think the benefit would be to allow
IMAP or POP 3 checks to be made remotely to from an email client.

And restricting pop and imap connections through your network to only
come from 1 server. After AV and Spam protection.

So for a small isp or similar notion horde can extend it's potential
grasp over the clients as a admin console as well. Especially with
ticket system etc

-----Original Message-----
From: horde-bounces at lists.horde.org
[mailto:horde-bounces at lists.horde.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Myer
Sent: 21 June 2005 12:31
To: horde at lists.horde.org
Subject: Re: [horde] FW: fetchmail

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

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


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