[Dovecot] download IMAP folders via POP3

[Jose Celestino]

Words by Jakob Grießmann [Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 06:08:35PM +0100]:
> Hi,
> 
> 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.
> 

Well, we actualy have that scenario, not for all IMAP folders but for
some. We have services that put receipts and unanswered calls and voice
mails on IMAP folders (there's acls and a master password allowing them
to do that) and we had to enable POP access to that for POP only users.

It's a ugly hack but we have it working.

> Googling brought up some results, but I don't know how to implement...
> 

With a ugly hack of course :)

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