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POP3 / gmail polling support

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    • timconsidineT timconsidine

      @necrevistonnezr what about using imapfilter ?
      I believe it can work with any mail provider to suck out and delete original host, and put it where you want

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      @timconsidine said in POP3 / gmail polling support:

      @necrevistonnezr what about using imapfilter ?
      I believe it can work with any mail provider to suck out and delete original host, and put it where you want

      That’s an extra app that needs running. POP3 is still built in into most (all?) providers. It would allow easy migration as you could keep old email addresses as an empty but still reachable shell.

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        POP3 support is quite easy to add. It's just some lines in dovecot config and some adjustments to the firewall.

        Anyone know why gmail only supports only POP3 but not IMAP? After all one can fetch mails using IMAP and then delete the mail to get POP3 style functionality no?

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        • necrevistonnezrN necrevistonnezr

          @timconsidine said in POP3 / gmail polling support:

          @necrevistonnezr what about using imapfilter ?
          I believe it can work with any mail provider to suck out and delete original host, and put it where you want

          That’s an extra app that needs running. POP3 is still built in into most (all?) providers. It would allow easy migration as you could keep old email addresses as an empty but still reachable shell.

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          @necrevistonnezr True, but imapfilter ( or another workaround ) is here today for you to achieve what you want. Beats waiting for the feature you're asking for which might be available sometime soon, later .... or never.

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          • timconsidineT timconsidine

            If there was a down-vote facility, I would down vote this.
            Nothing personal.
            But the whole underlying point of Cloudron / self-host / FOSS is to escape the clutches of abusive BigTech.
            Various posts elsewhere in forum about how to co-exist and maintain a Gmail capability. But they're just simply the wrong direction.

            There's nothing to fear and a lot to gain from leaving the dark side and getting Gmail free.

            @nebulon and @girish and any one else in prioritising features and work, please do not divert effort into things like this. There are far more important features to be implemented and apps to be supported.

            Just my 2p

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            More things than gmail use pop3 - eg the Discourse

            https://meta.discourse.org/t/configuring-reply-via-email/42026

            https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/2409/discourse-and-incoming-email/23?_=1633594660752

            @timconsidine

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            • girishG girish

              POP3 support is quite easy to add. It's just some lines in dovecot config and some adjustments to the firewall.

              Anyone know why gmail only supports only POP3 but not IMAP? After all one can fetch mails using IMAP and then delete the mail to get POP3 style functionality no?

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              @girish so it improves interoperability, eases adoption hassles, and makes other Cloudron apps more functional ... if it's just a few lines of code, is there a blocker to rollout in the next release?

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                @girish so it improves interoperability, eases adoption hassles, and makes other Cloudron apps more functional ... if it's just a few lines of code, is there a blocker to rollout in the next release?

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                @eddowding It's not a few lines of code.. but I am investigating because I want to add this at a per mailbox level and not for the whole server.

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                  I have enabled POP3 support in the next release.

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                  • girishG girish

                    I have enabled POP3 support in the next release.

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                    @girish WHOOP!!! Thank you!!

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