On 6.3.2012, at 0.06, Tom Talpey wrote:

I see a new "POP3C" lib-storage client backend in dovecot 2.1, but I don't see anything in the 2.1 doc directory or in the wiki. Can this be used to synchronize dovecot with external pop servers? Doing away with my current fetchmail and lmtp solution for this would be quite interesting.

Thanks for any pointers to configuring and using this, if so...

It could possibly be used to do that with http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/Snarf

Although that would probably connect to POP3 server quite often. And when IDLEing it wouldn't see new POP3 mails (that would need a small change to snarf plugin).