[Dovecot] Dovecot Setup as just a local IMAP server.

[Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams]

On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 12:34 +1000, David Terei wrote:
> Now so far Ive set up Dovecot and Its working fine, but How would I get
> my email accounts mail to be placed in the Inbox of my IMAP account? I'm
> think I would need to use either fetchmail or getmail to grab my mail.
> After that do these programs just save it in the appropriate IMAP folder
> on disk (which would be new?) or do I need a MTA such as qmail setup and
>  fetchmail or getmail passes the email to the MTA which just transfers
> it locally on the same computer?

Mail grabber -> MTA -> procmail -> Dovecot -> MUA

This is how I do it, so yes, this works.

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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez at ivazquez.net>
http://fedora.ivazquez.net/

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