in reply to IMAP to POP3 Proxy

Are you aware of the differences between POP3 and IMAP? The most trivial difference is that POP3 gives you read-and-maybe-delete access to exactly one mailbox directory (commonly called INBOX), whereas IMAP gives yo access to all mailbox directories and even allowes you uploads (yes, one can abuse IMAP to replace SMTP). Your proxy would allow you to access only one of the mailbox directories, and it would not allow you anything but reading and deleting.

Connect via IMAP. There is no reason to use POP3.

Alexander

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Re^2: IMAP to POP3 Proxy
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 04, 2009 at 12:26 UTC

    Yes actually, There are some situation where you find it required!

    What happened exactly is like the following.

    My university give us mailbox with 70 MBytes only so I used to fetch emails through gmail pop3 fetch.

    And Delete the emails from the university Mail box, So far in 1 year I've used like a 1 GB of disk space in Gmail.

    Today, The university techs have removed the POP3 and allows only IMAP (which is not supported by Gmail fetch functionality).

    My only thought was to make a proxy, run it on a development box I have, and use it to fetch my university emails through gmail.

    Sounds complicated, but possible

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      Configure the university mail account to forward your mails to your gmail account. No need to fiddle with proxies. If the university uses a unix system with sendmail or compatible systems, just create a file named ".forward" in your home directory containing your gmail address (i.e. echo 'anonymous_monk@gmail.com' > $HOME/.forward). For other mail servers, there are similar mechanisms. For Exchange / Outlook, you have to move your mouse for a while, digging through the Outlook menus that change with every new version. Just ask the mailserver admins or the hotline for help.

      Alexander

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      Today I will gladly share my knowledge and experience, for there are no sweeter words than "I told you so". ;-)
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        Well, I had the same thought before thinking of the proxing thing!.

        The university is using the most featureless copy of horde mail that has no forwarding option.

        and I have no SSH access to create/delete files.

        Outlook is byond our conversation (I don't really like it, been using thunderbird instead, but anyway I don't want to save emails on my local computer as I might need to access those emails later on that's why I used Gmail).

        Anyway Thanks for your help, I'll look at the modules specified earlier and try to do something about it.

        BTW talking to sysadmins is usually useless *Most sys-admins thinks they're GODS (No idea why!!).

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