fetchmail && ldap idea

[Fabio Pietrosanti]

Richard Bos and probably others are using fetchmail to download emails
of external servers and inject it in kolab.
This is a great way to migrate to the new system without removing the
old infrastructure and getting a feature like that integrated within
kolab could really benefit exchange-to-kolab migrations.

Should we think about having in ldap users profile also "external email
accounts" and then have a crontab jobs that crawl ldap directory,
retrieve external account, download email and inject it into specific
user inbox?

Someone proposed a fetchmail ldap schema to manage accounts that are in
other servers.
http://lists.ccil.org/pipermail/fetchmail-friends/2005-June/009582.html

Richard, what you think about that?
Adding field in kolab it's quite easy and if you are doing the job for
your company could be a good idea to propose an integration of such
feature within kolab cvs.

Best Regards

Fabio Pietrosanti