POP3 / gmail polling support

[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.

[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?

[timconsidine]

@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.

[eddowding]

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

[eddowding]

@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?

[girish]

@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.

[girish]

I have enabled POP3 support in the next release.

[eddowding]

@girish WHOOP!!! Thank you!!