Re: IMAP IDLE for several mail accounts

On Tue, 18 Dec 2018 10:24:19 +0100
R. Diez wrote:


> Unfortunately, on both fetchmail and getmail, IMAP IDLE only works
> for one mailbox.
> 
> Is there another way around this IMAP IDLE limitation?

IMAP NOTIFY, but it isn't supported by getmail/fetchmail AFAIK


> 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.

IMAP doesn't really have a well-defined concept of a poll. Probably the
provider has a limit on the login rate, in which case you might
actually be better-off with  multiple IDLE connections.


BTW I would recommend that you don't use Yahoo to post to mailing
lists. Their DMARC reject policy means that a lot of people wont receive
your mail through the list. I had to get a copy from gmane.org as
gmail rejected it.