On Thu, 6 Jun 2024, Steve Litt via Alpine-info wrote:
Carlos E. R. via Alpine-info said on Thu, 6 Jun 2024 13:24:19 +0200
Seriously, do not use pop3.
Why not?
There may be reasons to use pop3 in SOME cases.
For instance I have a configuration with three providers done this way
(the main goal is to remove mail from the provider server as soon as
sensible copying it locally [which I achieve via fetchmail in crontab] but
to be able to access occasionally from alpine mail "in transit" (i.e.
before fetchmail runs) or "leftover" (i.e. spam folders not fetched) on
the provider server.
So I can access each provider in three ways:
- inbox from fetchmail
- inbox from alpine as "incoming folder"
- rest of imap area (Spam, Thrash) from alpine as a per-provider
collection
And my access is:
Provider Fetchmail Alpine
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Civic net POP3 POP3
Gsuite POP3 IMAP
Libero IMAP IMAP
I use pop3 for ythre civic nety because they support only that.
I use pop3 for Gsuite (gmail) because google does not honour
fetch-and-remove with imap (even with pop3 it honours it in a
peculiar way, it fetches-and-moves-to-thrash ... then once per day
I connect via alpine/imap and do delete-and-expunge
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