[Alpine-info] Immediacy of fetchmail

[Carlos E. R. via Alpine-info]

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On Thursday, 2024-11-28 at 20:04 -0000, Andrew C Aitchison wrote:

> 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.


If I remember correctly, it then only handles one account.


- -- 
Cheers,
        Carlos E. R.
        (from openSUSE 15.5 x86_64 at Telcontar)

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