[Top post again moved to the bottom] On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Scot P. Floess <sfloess at nc.rr.com> wrote: > On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Brian Mathis wrote: >> [Top post moved to bottom] >> >> On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Davy Leon <davy at scu.escambray.com.cu> >> wrote: >>>> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: "Brian Mathis" <brian.mathis at gmail.com> >>>> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org> >>>> Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 10:27 AM >>>> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Fetchmail question >>>> >>>> >>>> On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Davy Leon <davy at scu.escambray.com.cu> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi folks >>>>> >>>>> This question is about fetchmail running on my Centos 5.3 box. >>>>> I need to fetch my email from different accounts living on remote >>>>> servers >>>>> and drop it on my local mailbox. >>>>> The question is which way is faster for fetchmail... using POP3 or IMAP? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks >>>>> David >>>> >>>> Not sure I could say which is faster, but POP3 is more simple and is >>>> intended for what you are doing. IMAP is meant to have all messages >>>> stored on the server and thus supports folders and other more advanced >>>> features. >>>> >>>> Based on what you are trying to accomplish, I would use POP3. >>> >>> Actually I'm using POP3, but just looking for improvements in speed. >>> Plus, >>> fetchmail doesn't allow fetch more than one account at a time, and it's >>> kind slow in the secure handshaking. There is another package should I >>> "explore" using it to improve speed? >>> >>> Thanks for your answer >>> >>> David >> >> You could probably make different fetchmailrc files for each account >> you have, and then use the "-f" option to read each separate file. >> Then launch multiple fetchmail processes for each account. That would >> allow you to fetch multiple accounts at once. >> >> As for gaining additional speed, it sounds like you may be using the >> wrong solution to accomplish something that you have not yet >> explained. High speed is typically not the main goal of email in >> general. > > You can definitely use the -f option to fetchmail. But the neat thing is, > you can supply multiple accounts - and multiple local users. For me I > supply 2 different pop servers and one local user - works great. > > Scot P. Floess Scott, You may notice that in the OPs 1st reply that the requirement is to retrieve multiple accounts *at the same time* to increase speed. AFAIK, if you use 1 file with fetchmail it will retrieve messages sequentially from each account.