[Dovecot] POP3C storage backend

[Timo Sirainen]

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).