On Thu, 28 Nov 2024, Lucio Chiappetti via Alpine-info wrote:

On Thu, 28 Nov 2024, Carlos E. R. via Alpine-info wrote:

On Linux, you can use a tool to download email, like fetchmail. This handles the mail to an MTA, this to a sorting tool, like procmail, which calls spamassassin as a part of the process, then finally Alpine.

Yes, I sort of second this approach. But there may be caveats.

But you loose the immediacy of imap.

True. I have a ~5 min delay (the time interval between my fetchmail runs, controlled bu crontab).

fetchmail supports imap IDLE.
This does require a separate config and process for each remote
server, but by replacing the cron job with a continuous
connection I get my messages instantly.
The connection can still fail from time to time;
I just restart fetchmail.

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Andrew C. Aitchison                      Kendal, UK
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