[imp] Fetchmail auto-poll

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Chris Warren <chris at dawgiestyle.com>:

> Does anybody know if it is possible to have Imp act more as a frontend for
> fetchmail?
> What I'm trying to do is set it up so that fetchmail will be run every
> minute or 2, without having to log in to imp.  This is so that any other
> imap client can be used and still have the mail retrieved from the remote
> servers.
>
> I'm thinking it would be useful to have the module upload a .fetchmailrc
> file to the user's home directory, and just run fetchmail from cron.
>
> Would this be possible?

Sure, but it's not really part of IMP. Could be part of the  
vacation/.forward/ other account tools suite though.

-chuck