On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 11:59 PM, Markward Schubert
<markward.schub...@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Would you expect james to somehow scale better when fetching emails from
> thousands of remote accounts on hundrets of different servers all over the
> world? Or is this somehow a task with an inherent "physical" limitation,
> which has to come to it's limits soon, because what james does is not much
> different from what we do now, because such a thing just can't be done a
> different way?
>
> Is there a way to programmatically add new pop- or imap-sources to fetch
> mail from, at runtime?
> Creating new users with the cli or via jmx is possible, as i saw in the
> docs. This is important, because customers and user come (and sometimes go)
> and we can not stop the server and reconfigure it each time a remote account
> is added.

The implementation is old but it's worked okay for me for many years.
A rewrite to use nio and modern approaches to concurrency has been on
my mind for a couple of years. I'm unlikely to get around to it any
time soon but I'd be happy to contributors keen to develop this
feature.

> Does fetchmail support secure transportation for pop and imap?

yes

Robert

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