Re: POP3 softwares.
Hi,
On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 09:46:15PM -0800, Peter Easthope wrote:
> Problem
> Given a remote POP3 server which provides SSL. Also a MUA on a
> local host, which retrieves by POP3 when activated by the user and
> lacks SSL. Try to move messages from the server to the MUA.
>
> Candidate Solution
> Let getmail, in the POP3-over-SSL instance, retrieve messages from
Good choice for getmail :-)
> the server and queue in an mbox file.
OK.
> Run qpopper to allow the MUA
> to retrieve from the mbox on demand.
??? Why bother with qpopper. It is a local mbox.
> Questions
> 1. Rather than getmail and qpopper, can one software do this task?
> If so, which is recommended?
You are using getmail + qpopper + some local MUA
Just make things simple by dropping qpopper.
> 2. The documentation for qpopper suggests that it can only acquire
> messages from a spool. If the answer to 1 is "no", is there
> some way to pipe messages directly from the retrieving POP3 to
> the delivering POP3?
By the way, mbox spool is not always good for you if you use noatime
filesystem. getmail supports maildirs etc which may be better if your
MUA supports it.
I actually use mailfilter to split mail into many different mail box.
See:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch06.en.html#_the_remote_mail_retrieval_and_forward_utility
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch06.en.html#_mail_delivery_agent_mda_with_filter
Osamu (getmail maintainer)
Reply to: