Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 01:01:48 -0500 From: Chris Brennan <xaero@xaerolimit.net> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fetching mail (but not fetchmail) Message-ID: <AANLkTikVQ630btpU9fMhPyKB=wLtocE89LjojCTUWE9H@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4D1433F0.9@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <AANLkTimeMfGOvBqztdr_HCT3y%2BMFhQomFCvXe2mASLP-@mail.gmail.com> <4D1433F0.9@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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n Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 12:47 AM, Matthew Seaman < m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > On 24/12/2010 03:27, 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 :/ ) > > fetchmail -- http://fetchmail.berlios.de/ plus dovecot -- > http://www.dovecot.org/ > > They're in ports. > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > 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?
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