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Hi, internally to our company we use an email address which is associated to a POP3 account (say pop.provider.com). We would like to use IMAP for mails, but provider.com doesn't support that. I thought it should be possible to use WebFaction to fetch mail periodically (e.g., every 5 minutes) from provider.com via POP, and provide IMAP access via WF to our mail client. At this point I'd change the mail client settings to access WebFaction IMAP server for incoming mails instead of provider.com's POP3. For outgoing mails we'll continue to use provider.com's SMTP. AFAIK WebFaction doesn't offer a such fetching service out-of-the-box, instead it's required a program/script doing that. Do anyone of you have an idea about how that script could look like and work? Or maybe something ready to use already exist? Thanks. asked 26 Jun '12, 01:27 Guandalino |
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I think you'll need a tool like pop2imap, which is specifically designed to download POP mail and upload it to an IMAP server. It appears to require a number of perl dependencies which we do not have installed, so you'll need to follow our Perl documentation to install whatever it needs. Hope that helps! answered 26 Jun '12, 14:05 seanf It's FANTASTIC, thanks. Works like a charm. Consider add this resource to the docs.
(27 Jun '12, 05:07)
Guandalino
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You can search online for 'POP3 to imap' copy scripts. One paid one I found was here. There are also some free ones, fetchmail, getmail. I have not personally tried any of these, normally when I need to do this it is with 2 IMAP severs in which case I use imapcopy. answered 26 Jun '12, 01:47 johns I installed getmail in my home and did the configuration to retrieve from POP without issues. Though, it's a bit hard to me to configure the
(26 Jun '12, 05:08)
Guandalino
OK, now I have the mails offline in
(26 Jun '12, 05:24)
Guandalino
I don't think getmail or fetchmail will work for you in this case. Those tools will fetch mail and store it on the machine where it is run, but your IMAP mailboxes are on a separate mail server, and you can't run scripts there. I'm posting a second answer with a different tool that you can use.
(26 Jun '12, 14:02)
seanf
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