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On Sat, 08 Jan 2011 16:55:17 +0100
Rolf Nielsen <listreader@lazlarlyricon.com> wrote:

> Thanks to all who've replied so far. Matthew's ideas strike me as the 
> most interesting ones, and I will certainly explore them and see if I 
> can get it working.
> I guess I should have explained in my original post that I neither
> need nor want an SMTP server locally, since I use the one my ISP
> provides, but I didn't know about the MDA option.


You can also use getmail to deliver directly from the remote accounts to
maildir if you want, though I'd use dovecot "deliver" IIWY.