Exec'ing a script from Cyrus when imapd has a client

[Greg A. Woods]

At Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:36:24 +0200, Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel at free.fr> wrote:
Subject: Exec'ing a script from Cyrus when imapd has a client
> 
> I have a small install with cyrus-imapd 2.3.14, which reads some of its
> mails with fetchmail. To limit the delay in mail delivery, fetchmail
> awakes each minute to get mails.
> What I would like is let fetchmail do that only when there's a client
> actually reading its mails, i.e. an MUA actually connected to imapd.

I don't get it.  Are you saying you are using fetchmail to inject
messages into a locally running Cyrus install which you then connect to
with a locally running IMAP MUA?

Maybe you should just eliminate fetchmail from the picture and then see
if things make more sense.  Just point your MUA at the originating IMAP
server and eliminate everything in between.

If you're using an IMAP capable client, and you're using IMAP to read
your e-mail, then you don't need or want fetchmail -- it's just a rather
nasty old hack for the days before IMAP.  Personally I think the last
usable copy of fetchmail should be archived away on an ancient 9-track
magnetic tape reel and put behind a little glass door which has "Break
glass in case of emergency" written on it.  Everything is ever so much
easier and simpler if you can just eliminate all the unnecessary
complexities, such as fetchmail.

(if you want to keep a copy of your messages on your local machine, then
you can and should probably just use your MUA to do that)

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