On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Sotiris Tsimbonis tsimbonis@forthnet.gr wrote:
I don't think that you'll find any piece of software that internally 'translates' pop3 commands to imap ..
Unless it saves a local copy of the mailbox...
Pop3 sessions are usually locked, so multiple sessions are not possible.. Unless something like the following is set in dovecot.conf
# Keep the mailbox locked for the entire POP3 session. pop3_lock_session = no
but this is dovecot specific (does this mail provider use dovecot?).
No idea about the provider.
Also, I believe that behaviour will probably by uncertain if, say, multiple pop3 clients try to modify the same (single) mbox file.. So it also depends on the mailbox format you are trying to access, maybe Maildir or dbox are better..
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Again.. Many people using pop3.. Depends on mail server software and mailbox format.. IMAP does multiple sessions better.
Just thinking aloud...
Could be a solution if I keep a local copy of the mailbox fetching it somehow through imap or pop3 from the provider and then use dovecot with "pop3_lock_session = no" to serve the clients?
I'm not sure of it just because I don't know how the certified email internally works.
Thank you for your help, Diego.