[Dovecot] download IMAP folders via POP3

Sahil Tandon sahil at tandon.net
Thu Dec 25 19:13:27 EET 2008


Jakob Grie?mann wrote:

> I know my question might sound a little bit strange, but is it
> possible to download IMAP folders via POP3? I have clients who use
> POP3 on their main machines and IMAP on their "on the road" notebooks.
> It would be good to download all folders created on the notebook via
> POP3 to the main desktop.

POP3 should download the newly created folders, unless there are some
other idiosyncrasies of which we're not aware.  But as a matter of
practice, why the mismatch?  Better to have users on IMAP from desktop
and notebook.  Unless this is a mandate "from above" or a legacy issue,
move everyone to IMAP!

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Sahil Tandon <sahil at tandon.net>


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