Can Dovecot replace fetchmail?

[Peter Chiochetti]

Am 2017-07-13 um 09:34 schrieb Kenneth Porter:
> I'm using fetchmail to grab mail for multiple accounts from an external 
> IMAP server and drop it into local mailboxes via SMTP. It polls the 
> remote server every two minutes. Can Dovecot replace this functionality 
> more elegantly, using IDLE to avoid the polling necessary with 
> fetchmail? I'd like to designate that mail for specific accounts on the 
> external server be moved to specific local mailboxes.

Just in case: fetchmail can /idle/ on an IMAP server as well, though 
with multiple accounts that needs some tuning, see eg. 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1021699 or 
http://fnxweb.com/blog/2012/07/14/using-multiple-fetchmail-instances-for-instant-gratification/


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peter