[imp] Problem with Fetchmail

[commedo]

Ok. Thx. I'll create a ticket about this.

regards,


commedo 

-----Original Message-----
From: imp-bounces at lists.horde.org [mailto:imp-bounces at lists.horde.org] On
Behalf Of Jan Schneider
Sent: Rabu, 26 Juli 2006 14:26 comm
To: imp at lists.horde.org
Subject: Re: [imp] Problem with Fetchmail

Zitat von commedo <commedo at portal.ebdesk.com>:

> I've figure out the problem. I log in to IMP by selecting POP3 as mail
> server (because my mail server is a POP3 server) and of course user and
> password. I get my Inbox page after logging in. I set an external (POP3)
> account to fetch in Fetchmail account. I tried to fetch the mail and
always
> get 0 new message although there are some new messages in the external
mail
> server (I test it using telnet to its port 110). I'm curious and tried to
> debug the IMP code and finally found that IMP is succeed to retrieve mails
> from POP3 server BUT unable to save the message into my mail server using
> imap_append() and got error message "the method is unsupported in POP3
> server". I concluded that imap_append() is working for IMAP server only.
And
> later I re-login to IMP by selecting IMAP server (after I installed
> COURIER-IMAP server) and got the Inbox page as like as I login by
selecting
> POP3. And trying to fetchmail again. It's work now.
> Finally I conclude that the fetchmail is working if only if the
> installed/local mail server is an IMAP server because the retrieved mail
is
> saved to local mailbox after retrieval using function that is compatible
for
> IMAP only.
> I'm just worder why using this method? Are there no other ways to save
> retrieved mail into local mailbox?

No. But it's still a bug because you shouldn't have the option to  
fetch mails into your accout if using a POP3 server. Please create a  
ticket a bugs.horde.org.

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