Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 00:33:42 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Chris Brennan <xaero@xaerolimit.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fetching mail (but not fetchmail) Message-ID: <FDBF019C-8B4D-4DF0-8AEA-ADAD9C98FB71@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikVQ630btpU9fMhPyKB=wLtocE89LjojCTUWE9H@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTimeMfGOvBqztdr_HCT3y%2BMFhQomFCvXe2mASLP-@mail.gmail.com> <4D1433F0.9@infracaninophile.co.uk> <AANLkTikVQ630btpU9fMhPyKB=wLtocE89LjojCTUWE9H@mail.gmail.com>
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On Dec 24, 2010, at 12:01 AM, 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?
Yes, that is exactly what he was saying. Fetchmail puts it where ever =
you tell it to. All you have to do is put the email where dovecot can =
find it in a format dovecot understands. You can think of dovecot as a =
remote controlled email reader, one which can be driven by Mail.app, =
Outlook, or Firefox. But in doing this you are not giving up the ability =
to do mail on your console.
When using maildir format both mutt and dovecot can operate out of the =
same mail repository at the same time.
For example I use ~/Maildir/ and the maildir format.
Also use procmail for initial sorting and filtering with bogofilter. In =
my .fetchmailrc like this:
defaults
proto pop3
fetchall
mda "/usr/local/bin/procmail -d dkelly"
.procmailrc something like this:
MAILDIR=3D$HOME/Maildir/ #you'd better make sure it exists
DEFAULT=3D/var/mail/$LOGNAME
# Make a copy of everything incoming:
:0 c
$HOME/Mail_Backup/
# Add a Lines: header if one is lacking, so mutt knows a message's size
:0 Bfh
* H ?? !^Lines:
* -1^0
* 1^1 ^.*$
| formail -A "Lines: $=3D"
# bogofilter -u trains all tokens as spam or non-spam
:0 HB:
* ? bogofilter -u
.spam/
# detect dupes
:0 Whc: msgid.lock
| formail -D 131072 msgid.cache
# divert dupes
:0 a:
.dups/
# ultimate point of delivery
:0
./
The above .procmail puts a copy of everything in ~/Mail_Backup/ just in =
case.
--
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net
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Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
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