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On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 12:36 -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">At Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:37:30 -0700 (PDT), David Lang <<A HREF="mailto:david.lang@digitalinsight.com">david.lang@digitalinsight.com</A>> wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Subject: Re: Exec'ing a script from Cyrus when imapd has a client</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> I possibly missed it, but I didn't see anything that said that fetchmail was </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> grabbing things via IMAP.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Yup, I think you missed it.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> if you have intermittent/expensive-per-min internet connectivity doing something </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> like this has value.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Nope, not really. All modern useful IMAP clients can work offline too.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">All another IMAP server is doing is adding to the complexity _and_</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">decreasing, i.e. lowering, the robustness of the overall solution.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> another reason to run your own server is just to be free from quotas. many ISPs </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> have small mail quotas.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">All modern useful IMAP clients can also store message locally -- moving</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">them from server to server, or server to local (or back), is as simple</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">as selecting and saving/dragging messages between folders. </FONT>
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- not all mail providers do IMAP.<BR>
- not all mail providers doing IMAP guarantee unlimited storage or lifelong mail availability.<BR>
- some users have accumulated mail providers and want to centralize everything in a trusted server<BR>
That's what I do with Cyrus: fetching mail from various POP3 sources, and having all where we can access it, from several IMAP clients.<BR>
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That you may find this solution not optimal isn't the question (nor really my problem, in fact), I just wanted my server to rest a bit when unused (spinning off the drives array has measurable power gains), so I wanted to be able to know when Cyrus has connected users.<BR>
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Thanks,<BR>
Xav
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