[imp] Other Mail Accounts feature / Fetch Mail

Neale Rudd neale at metawerx.net
Tue Dec 12 01:48:16 PST 2006


Hi Jan,

Good point.  The POP3 is really just a view of what is aleady
on the server, waiting for normal POP3 collection.

I guess the fact that the option is available is a bug then.

Best Regards,
Neale

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jan Schneider" <jan at horde.org>
To: <imp at lists.horde.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 8:43 PM
Subject: Re: [imp] Other Mail Accounts feature / Fetch Mail


> Zitat von Neale Rudd <neale at metawerx.net>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> In relation to the problem below, here is some further information.
>>
>> - All our authentication is based on servers.php.
>> - When the user logs in as a POP3 user, the problem below is
>> experienced, mail from extra accounts are not fetched
>> - When the user logs in as an IMAP user however, the mail from
>> the extra (pop) accounts *is* fetched correctly.  It is also interesting
>> to note that these extra pop accounts were configured when I logged
>> in using the pop3 server.  Horde seems to track the information against
>> the user-name, and not a user-name+mailserver combination.
>>
>> Therefore, to replicate the problem, I need to be logged in as a pop3
>> authenticated user.
>
> You can only save messages to IMAP servers, not to POP3 servers. The 
> fetchmail functionality shouldn't be available at all if logging in to 
> POP3.
>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Neale Rudd" <neale at metawerx.net>
>> To: <imp at lists.horde.org>
>> Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 10:36 PM
>> Subject: [imp] Other Mail Accounts feature / Fetch Mail
>>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am having a problem with Fetch Mail, on the latest RC of Horde 
>>> WebMail Edition.
>>> Version is horde-webmail-1.0-rc2.
>>>
>>> IMP accesses the mail server correctly (POP3), and issues RETR 
>>> statements for all
>>> the waiting mail.  However, it always shows "Fetchmail: Fetched 0 
>>> messages from support"
>>> (support is the Other Mail Accounts account name in this case).   The 
>>> mail does not show
>>> in the inbox however.
>>>
>>> With the primary mail account that I log in as, mail is retrieved 
>>> correctly.
>>> However, with any additional mail account, I always get the same result.
>>>
>>> For example, if there are 10 mails waiting in support at mydomain.com,  I 
>>> can see IMP
>>> issue 10 RETR statements in the POP3 logs of the mail server, 1 for 
>>> each mail.  If
>>> I add 4 mails, it issues 14 RETR statements. Therefore, it is not a 
>>> problem of IMP
>>> knowing it has already collected those mails. They just never show  in 
>>> the Inbox.
>>>
>>> Is there something I'm doing incorrectly, or is this a known bug?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Neale Rudd
>>> metawerx
>>> http://www.metawerx.net
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>
> Jan.
>
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