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

[Bob Hall]

On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 12:34:00PM +1000, David Terei wrote:
> What I am trying to do is setup a spare computer to run Dovecot and that
>   It stores all my email from my accounts which are all accessed through
> POP. This way instead of being tied to one mail client (and hence OS and
> Computer) I just set up my mail client to access Dovecot and then I'm
> done. So I am trying to set up an IMAP server to store my emails instead
> of just storing them on my local hard disk really.

I have essentially the same situation. I have a small number of users
who need to work with their mail from more than one computer. I use
getmail to pull their mail off their POP accounts and put it into the
/var/mail/accountname directory. Then dovecot serves it to whatever
computer and MUA they happen to be using at the moment.

I'm using old hardware, and I haven't had any problems with speed using
getmail. I used fetchmail up until a year ago. I switched to getmail
because it is safer. Getmail runs every 15 minutes as a cron job and
pulls mail from several different POP accounts. I could do it more
frequently without overloading anything. Fetchmail worked fine, but I
can't tell that it worked any better than getmail.