[H-GEN] conventional wisdom

[Mark Suter]

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On 2002-11-13, Sarah Hollings wrote:

> This must be one of those questions that now has a generally
> agreed apon optimal answer:
>       email is on a POP server A (eg ISP),
>       pull it down onto another server B (mine),
>       access it via IMAP
>       -: how to do?
>
> The third one is already being done (tho' I have a hurdle of
> IMAP shared folders to solve yet).
>
> The rest looks like a job for fetchmail - any gotchas people
> are aware of?

Seems to be the thing ;)

    $ man -k fetchmail
    fetchmail (1)        - fetch mail from a POP, IMAP, ETRN, or ODMR-capable server

Without knowing more about the details to base more specific
recommendations upon, fetchmail is a good general solution.

Unfortunately, pop and then imap means you have two polling
cycles that will probably be out of sync.  Where preferable, I
would try to have the ISP forward as email came in, for example,
an alias or a .forward file.

Another undesirable aspect is the clear-text passwords commonly
used.

Yours sincerely,

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