I hoping this is an RTFM ... and somebody can point me at the correct 'FM' :-)
I've just spent a while setting my new Debian , allways-on box in what I suspect is a generally useful configuration.
I have fetchmail(1) collect mail from many mailboxes via pop3.
I store these mails in different mboxs according to rules in procmail(1)
I then offer these out to the household via imap in dovecot(1) .
I have fetchmail(1) set to poll the ISPs every 5 minutes, this seems to work fine, but there are two issues:
1: The constant polling keeps the disk spinning for no good reason (most of the time) 2: If I check my mail via a mail reader using imap to the local mboxes ...there could be mail sitting on the ISP servers I don't see (for 5 mins)
Now what would be much nicer, would simply be to have dovecot(1) issue the fetchmail(1) command whenever it it got an imap request. I general what I guess I would like is:
"When a request comes in (via imap) fork off a command who's name is given in the conf file. ... imap_pre_cmd="xxx"
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Graeme