On 11:59 AM, Aaron Whitehouse wrote:
To set up POP3 on my HTPC, I understand that the norm is to set a time interval (say, every 10 minutes) for clearing email. What I would prefer to do, if possible, would be to have Dovecot on my HTPC keep a Push IMAP connection with Dovecot on my webhost. When a new message is available on the webhost, my HTPC would be "pushed" a notification and it could do a POP3 download. This would allow it to clear emails with POP3 (and reduce storage requirements on my webhost), mean that I received emails instantly and not require me to have it poll for messages on a very-regular basis.
Does anybody know if this is possible?
Dovecot is a POP3/IMAP server, not a client, so I doubt that it can do this.
As an alternative (not solving my space problem on the webhost, but solving the others), is it possible to set up Dovecot to "piggy back" off an existing IMAP server? In my example, my webhost does not offer good spam-checking and webmail. Would it be possible for me to set up a Dovecot server on my HTPC that received messages by Push IMAP, processed them with SpamAssassin (say, moving all of the spam messages to a subfolder) and provided a good web interface, all the while providing updates to the webhost's server? In some ways, this is almost more like an IMAP client than a server.
I think you should be looking at fetchmail/procmail for all these kinds of things.
Also, deleting messages from the server does not necessarily require POP3. You can receive a message via IMAP, flag it deleted and expunge it from the server just as you can retrieve and delete it from the server via POP3
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