At Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:37:30 -0700 (PDT), David Lang
<david.l...@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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