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

[Greg A. Woods]

At Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:43:41 -0700 (PDT), David Lang <david.lang at digitalinsight.com> wrote:
Subject: Re: Exec'ing a script from Cyrus when imapd has a client
> 
> there can be cases where you are providing mail services for several people, or 
> have multiple machines you use yourself where having an IMAP server is 
> worthwhile.

Neither of those things make any real sense whatsoever.  They certainly
don't define any clear requirements that make sense in this context.

Every modern and useful IMAP-capable MUA can collect e-mail from any
combination of many IMAP servers anywhere and everywhere all at once.

If "fetchmail" can fetch the mail from an IMAP server, then so can any
MUA.

Just get rid of all the unnecessary complexity in the middle and just
use the MUA for what it's designed to be used for!



> now, it's unusual to use something like this without having a full MTA, but it's 
> not unheard of.

It's not unusual for people to create all kinds of crazy complicated
setups that have no real purpose, in every domain in life.

I'm sure I make my own life more complicated than it needs to be in some ways.

However things do not _need_ to be made more complicated than necessary,

Here the OP's question provides a perfect clue showing that something is
far more complicated than it needs to be because we see that it will
even have to get more complex (and even less robust) before it begins to
work the way it would actually work without any of this unnecessary
complexity in the middle in the first place.

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