<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Steve Litt" <slitt@troubleshooters.com><br><b>To: </b>ale@ale.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, September 29, 2016 8:45:55 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [ale] Why Run your own email server?<br></blockquote></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><br>My fetchmail triggers every 180 seconds (3 minutes) to imap-pull my<br>email. It plunks each email into procmail, which deposits each email<br>into the proper maildir folder of my local Dovecot server. I use<br>Claws-Mail as a periscope into my local Dovecot server.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think mine triggers every 2 minutes. I have it use procmail to feed it to a spam filter, virus, and a few programs like a vacation notice.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>I noticed I had almost 20,000 emails unread at gmail. I really need fetchmail to make a full backup of my gmail in maildir format then delete everything at google. Start back from 0.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div></div></div></body></html>