Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 09:12:07 +0000 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fetching mail (but not fetchmail) Message-ID: <20101225091207.54248d4e@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <FDBF019C-8B4D-4DF0-8AEA-ADAD9C98FB71@hiwaay.net> References: <AANLkTimeMfGOvBqztdr_HCT3y%2BMFhQomFCvXe2mASLP-@mail.gmail.com> <4D1433F0.9@infracaninophile.co.uk> <AANLkTikVQ630btpU9fMhPyKB=wLtocE89LjojCTUWE9H@mail.gmail.com> <FDBF019C-8B4D-4DF0-8AEA-ADAD9C98FB71@hiwaay.net>
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On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 00:33:42 -0600 David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> wrote: > > 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. mutt and [al]pine support imap, and dovecot works more efficiently if you don't modify, or deliver to, the mail store without going through imap or deliver. BTW no-one has mentioned getmail. getmail can deliver to an mda or maildir and pipe though spam/virus filters itself. In combination with the sieve support in dovecot deliver you can drop procmail altogether.
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