On Fri, December 1, 2006 10:54 am, Fredrik Jervfors wrote: >>> One well known solution to fetch mail from other servers is a program >>> called Fetchmail, and there's a SquirrelMail frontend for it. >>> http://fetchmail.berlios.de/ >>> http://squirrelmail.org/plugin_view.php?id=50 >>> >> >> What's the benefit of installing that plugin, rather than using Mail >> Fetch >> which is included in SM core? > > The Mail Fetch plugin (included with SquirrelMail) makes SquirrelMail do > all the filtering, i.e. it makes PHP and the webserver do it. This > consumes a lot or server resources. If you install Fetchmail at your > server, the server can do it on its own without going through the > webserver, i.e. it does the same thing, only better (more options) and > without using as much server resources. The Mail Fetchmail plugin, which I > linked to above, is just at front end which makes it possible for the end > users to update their configuration files regaring the services that > Fetchmail provides. If there is no filtering involved, just pulling mail from external POP accounts, is there any difference between Mail Fetch and Fetchmail? I use Mail Fetch to grab mail from other POP accounts, but do not use SM for filtering. (Any filtering is done on the server using other tools.) Given that we only want to get POP mail, is there any advantage to using Fetchmail over Mail Fetch? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV -- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting Guidelines: http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/MailingListPostingGuidelines List Address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
