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Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 07:53:55 +1300
From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To: Chris Brennan <xaero@xaerolimit.net>
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Subject: Re: fetching mail (but not fetchmail)
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On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 10:27:32PM -0500, Chris Brennan wrote:
> Bit of an odd question. But I will try. Is it possible to set up some
> mechanism (in freebsd or maybe gentoo (doesn't matter to me)) to pop/imap
> into my mail location and download everything as storage and then I imap to
> my local machine to read my mail. I realize I can pop/imap directly into my
> mail, the goal of this exorcise is to store my mail on one of my local
> servers and not my windows machine which can change at a moment's notice. (I
> just don't like the idea of permanent/long-term storage in Windows :/ )

I've got a fetchmail + procmail combination, where fetchmail retrieves
it from a remote POP3 server and procmail is the local MDA which
converts it to Maildir format (which can be read by my local
IMAP server).

My ~/.fetchmailrc looks like this:
    poll pop3.vodafone.co.nz protocol pop3
        username "myusername"
        password "mypassword"
        mda /usr/local/bin/procmail
        sslproto ""

And ~/.procmailrc looks like:
    #
    #
    # Trailing / for Maildir
    MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir/
    DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/
    ...

Hope that helps.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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