[Alpine-info] Immediacy of fetchmail

[Andrew C Aitchison via Alpine-info]

On Thu, 28 Nov 2024, Carlos E. R. via Alpine-info wrote:


> You can also do it on the client, but indirectly.

>

> On Linux, you can use a tool to download email, like fetchmail. This 

> handles the mail to an MTA, this to a sorting tool, like procmail, which 

> calls spamassassin as a part of the process, then finally Alpine.

>

> But you loose the immediacy of imap.


???

fetchmail can use imap's IDLE.
I use it to feed emails into exim, and see emails immediately
in a running alpine session.
xbiff watching the fetchmail log also shows new mails immediately.


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Andrew C. Aitchison                      Kendal, UK
                    andrew at aitchison.me.uk