Re: getmail configuration (How to run fetchmail as daemon at startup)
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On 03/25/07 14:01, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> Paul E Condon <pecondon@mesanetworks.net> wrote:
>
>> 1.) What is 'reinjection in a mail queue'? Where can I learn how this
>> differs from whatever is being done by fetchmail as an example case?
>> Or does fetchmail also do reinjection in a mail queue?
>
> As I understand it, the pop3/imap protocols were created to allow a
> mail client to retrieve the mail and present it to the user. Fetchmail
> instead is feeding it back to a mail server through port 25.
POP & IMAP are, apples and badgers.
http://www.imap.org/about/whatisIMAP.html
IMAP stands for Internet Message Access Protocol. It is a
method of accessing electronic mail or bulletin board messages
that are kept on a (possibly shared) mail server. In other
words, it permits a "client" email program to access remote
message stores as if they were local. For example, email
stored on an IMAP server can be manipulated from a desktop
computer at home, a workstation at the office, and a note-
book computer while traveling, without the need to transfer
messages or files back and forth between these computers.
[snip]
the widely used Post Office Protocol (POP) works best when
one has only a single computer, since it was designed to
support "offline" message access, wherein messages are down-
loaded and then deleted from the mail server. This mode of
access is not compatible with access from multiple computers
since it tends to sprinkle messages across all of the computers
used for mail access. Thus, unless all of those machines share
a common file system, the offline mode of access that POP was
designed to support effectively ties the user to one computer
for message storage and manipulation.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!
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