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

[Greg A. Woods]

At Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:37:30 -0700 (PDT), David Lang <david.lang at digitalinsight.com> wrote:
Subject: Re: Exec'ing a script from Cyrus when imapd has a client
> 
> I possibly missed it, but I didn't see anything that said that fetchmail was 
> grabbing things via IMAP.

Yup, I think you missed it.

> if you have intermittent/expensive-per-min internet connectivity doing something 
> like this has value.

Nope, not really.   All modern useful IMAP clients can work offline too.

All another IMAP server is doing is adding to the complexity _and_
decreasing, i.e. lowering, the robustness of the overall solution.

> another reason to run your own server is just to be free from quotas. many ISPs 
> have small mail quotas.

All modern useful IMAP clients can also store message locally -- moving
them from server to server, or server to local (or back), is as simple
as selecting and saving/dragging messages between folders.  

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