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

[David Lang]

On Mon, 26 Oct 2009, Xavier Bestel wrote:

> On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 10:07 -0700, David Lang wrote:
>> On Mon, 26 Oct 2009, Greg A. Woods wrote:
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>>> 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
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>>>> 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.
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>>>> 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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>> in my mind, having the IMAP client copy all messages to the local drive goes a
>> long way to defeating the benifits of using IMAP in the first place.
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> The drive is not exactly local, it's on a separate server (which does
> mainly mail and file server), which is accessed remotely or not,
> depending on who uses it and when.

I was responding to Greg, who was saying that all modern IMAP clients will copy 
the mail to the local drive so that they can work offline.

David Lang

>> what do you consider a 'modern IMAP client' that is actually reasonably
>> efficiant to use? there are a lot of 'IMAP clients' out there that treat IMAP as
>> if it was POP (downloading everything and then working on it locally, taking
>> _no_ advantage of the server capabilities) I am interested in finding such a
>> client because at the moment I am using pine and mulberry, both of which are
>> very good at using the server, but not exactly 'modern'.
>
> I admit I have yet to find the ideal IMAP client, efficiency-wise. But
> that's another problem.
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