[Alpine-info] alpine and whitelisting?

[Andrew C Aitchison via Alpine-info]

On Thu, 28 Nov 2024, Lucio Chiappetti via Alpine-info wrote:


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

>

>> 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.

>

>  Yes, I sort of second this approach. But there may be 

> caveats.

>

>> But you loose the immediacy of imap.

>

>  True. I have a ~5 min delay (the time interval between my 

> fetchmail runs, controlled bu crontab).


fetchmail supports imap IDLE.
This does require a separate config and process for each remote
server, but by replacing the cron job with a continuous
connection I get my messages instantly.
The connection can still fail from time to time;
I just restart fetchmail.

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