Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] POP3 Mail question.

[Tony (Angles) Puglisi]

Ryan Bonham (address@hidden) wrote*:
>
>Hi,
>I am looking into using phpGroupWare. I have it installed and running and so 
>far I
>love it. I have one question.
>
>Is there a way to use mail folders with a POP3 mail server? If not, is support 
>for
>this going to be included in the next release?

The email class actually is capable of connecting simultaneously to many email
servers of type either IMAP or POP3, for each user, however at this time it only
gives one account per user.

This capability is important because if you have an IMAP account and a POP3
account, the planned mail filter feature could be used to direct mail from that 
POP
account to a folder in your IMAP server.

Because IMAP naturally supports folders, but POP does not, using the above 
method
is the most likely soon-to-happen way to do as you ask.

Additionally, the POP3 class can actually use almost any data source like an 
"email
server", so _in_the_future_ (TM) I could see using, for example, a TAR archive 
(on
unix systems) in the users VFS database space, to achieve this local folder (non
POP3, non IMAP) capability.

Using a TAR archive (which could be a compressed tarball) also achieves the 
goal of
having an "archival" folder to place older, less-read mail, in; but yet save 
space
with the compression.
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