Re^3: Handling reconnection with Mail::IMAPClient

[rizzo]

Sorry, my bad. Instead of simply writing about "smtp server logic", I should have been more explicit.

As far as I understand it, the smtp protocol was designed with that sort of connection problems in mind. If mails cannot be delivered instantly they stay in the queue and are sent when the remote mail server is available again. At least to me that seems a convenient solution for the connection problem.

My idea was to install an additional smtp server locally and relay the mail to the remote smtp server, that finally ends up in the IMAP server your are trying to access to that local smtp server. If accessing that mail via IMAP is desired an additional IMAP server would be necessary.

Probably to much effort if there are only a handful of mailboxes, I see that. It must have been the term "connection problem" that triggered me ;-)