On Tuesday 07 December 2004 16:20, viebig wrote:
I hope I understood you right : -Alfred , the Desktop has the mail
- Willi , The Laptop should only access ( reed, write, delete...) them
Exactly.
On Alfred you will need fetchmail to get your mails from your Provider ( some server usually provided by your ISP ) These Mails are usually stored in your mail folder .
I collect my email by uucp. This is working perfectly, and I can collect it either on my laptop or on my desktop. At present I collect it on my laptop. If and when I get dovecot working I shall collect it on my desktop. I do not need fetchmail for this purpose.
To check them from your Laptop (Willi ) you need another software that works like an pop or imap server. The one you choosed is dovecot. So you do not need fetchmail on your laptop. On your laptop you will need a email client like Kmail, or even OE (on Windows). If you use imap the mail remains on the desktop (Alfred ) except you copy something on your local folders. Hope it helped..
I know I do not _need_ fetchmail. I am simply using it to test dovecot. If everything worked, I would use KMail on my laptop to access my email on the desktop.
Surely there must be people using dovecot on a home LAN in this way?
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