Forum OpenACS Q&A: Response to Email Autorespoder via AOLserver et.al.

Well, maybe if Bill spent one day carefully following installation instructions in Life with qmail, just like me, he would have qmail installed. Was it easy or enjoyable? No. Was it possible? Certainly yes.

From the engineering perspective I doubt writing a module to retrieve e-mail from POP3 (POP3 protocol is considered to be seriously brain-damaged) will be any easier than following a documentation to install a piece of software.