From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 24 06:13:25 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B015B1065672 for ; Fri, 24 Dec 2010 06:13:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xaero@xaerolimit.net) Received: from mail-ew0-f54.google.com (mail-ew0-f54.google.com [209.85.215.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BAC98FC14 for ; Fri, 24 Dec 2010 06:13:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy24 with SMTP id 24so3611663ewy.13 for ; Thu, 23 Dec 2010 22:13:24 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.213.15.146 with SMTP id k18mr1573471eba.38.1293171204059; Thu, 23 Dec 2010 22:13:24 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.213.112.145 with HTTP; Thu, 23 Dec 2010 22:13:03 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20101224070743.f6bf35e2.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <4D1433F0.9@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20101224070743.f6bf35e2.freebsd@edvax.de> From: Chris Brennan Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 01:13:03 -0500 Message-ID: To: Polytropon Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fetching mail (but not fetchmail) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 06:13:25 -0000 On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 01:01:48 -0500, Chris Brennan > wrote: > > Thanks but I I think maybe I wasn't entirely clear. With fetchmail (which > is > > why I said but not fetchmail in the subject) I very well can download all > my > > mail. For reading locally, on the console (not what I had in mind). Or is > > this where dovecot comes into play? To prepare the previously fetched > mail > > and prepare it for pop/imap access? > > No. The fetchmail program usually fetches (copies and flushes, > or not flushes) the POP mailbox and places the content on your > local machine into your user's mailbox, /var/mail/$USER. From > there on, you can do with the mail what you want, e. g. view > it with mail (from the base system), incorporate "from spool" > into Sylpheed, Thunderbird, pine, whatever program you want, > or continue processing with another program (e. g. to transfer > the messages elsewhere - this is where docevot enters the > scene). > > Ok so fetchmail is step 1, step 2 is to unleash dovecet on /var/mail/$USER and then just point ex: thunderbird at my local server:port and happy hunting?