[imp] Collect remote mail to local server/db?

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Nathaniel Baughman <n.e.baughman at gmail.com>:

> a) On http://www.horde.org/apps/webmail, the bullet "Fetching of  
> messages from
> external email accounts" is crossed off. This sounds like the very feature I
> need. Can someone please clarify why this is crossed off?

It was removed in IMP 5 - it was buggy and a resource hog at best.   
Nobody to this point has stepped forward to fund development into  
adding this back properly: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/?id=8077

> b) Instead of leaving my email on all the remote IMAP/POP3 servers,  
> I would like
> to collect (that is, fetch and remove remotely) all my mail from those remote
> servers and store them locally (on the local server/db). I still  
> need to be able
> to send mail as each of my remote identities.

A webmail client is **not** the preferred method of performing this  
for various reasons (in fact, this is how the old fetching code work  
that was removed).  You really need to be doing this via a tool  
specially designed for this kind of activity, like fetchmail (or one  
of its spiritual descendants) run from a cron script.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at horde.org]