Re: IMAP IDLE for several mail accounts
Charles Cazabon <[email protected]>
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R. Diez <[email protected]> wrote: > > Unfortunately, on both fetchmail and getmail, IMAP IDLE only works for one > mailbox. > > Is there another way around this IMAP IDLE limitation? I do not really want > to spawn one fetchmail or getmail process per mailbox. Our mail provider has > also a limit on how often you can poll for new e-mails. Well, if you want low-latency mail deliveries, the proper solution is to have your mail pushed to you via SMTP (either through a public MX record, or via private arrangement with your mailhost) rather than polling via POP or IMAP (and IMAP IDLE is really only halfway a "push" solution). Perhaps your provider offers this service? Otherwise, the only way to get multiple recipients' mail with a single IMAP connection would be to have a domain mailbox, where mail for all recipients in a domain goes into a single IMAP mailbox, and then you separate it out after retrieval and before final delivery. getmail has support for this, though there are some technical requirements on the provider's implementation of domain mailbox. Charles -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Cazabon GPL'ed software available at: http://pyropus.ca/software/ -----------------------------------------------------------------------