[Alpine-info] One last question before bed / and Thank ya'll!

[Lucio Chiappetti via Alpine-info]

On Thu, 6 Jun 2024, Steve Litt via Alpine-info wrote:

> Carlos E. R. via Alpine-info said on Thu, 6 Jun 2024 13:24:19 +0200



>> Seriously, do not use pop3.

> Why not?


There may be reasons to use pop3 in SOME cases.

For instance I have a configuration with three providers done this way 
(the main goal is to remove mail from the provider server as soon as 
sensible copying it locally [which I achieve via fetchmail in crontab] but 
to be able to access occasionally from alpine mail "in transit" (i.e. 
before fetchmail runs) or "leftover" (i.e. spam folders not fetched) on 
the provider server.

So I can access each provider in three ways:

  - inbox from fetchmail
  - inbox from alpine as "incoming folder"
  - rest of imap area (Spam, Thrash) from alpine as a per-provider
    collection

And my access is:

  Provider     Fetchmail     Alpine
-----------------------------------
  Civic net    POP3          POP3
  Gsuite       POP3          IMAP
  Libero       IMAP          IMAP

I use pop3 for ythre civic nety because they support only that.
I use pop3 for Gsuite (gmail) because google does not honour
   fetch-and-remove with imap (even with pop3 it honours it in a
   peculiar way, it fetches-and-moves-to-thrash ... then once per day
   I connect via alpine/imap and do delete-and-expunge

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Lucio Chiappetti - INAF/IASF - via Corti 12 - I-20133 Milano (Italy)
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