• On 2003.01.02, in <20030103024845.GA32431@mulder.wiked.org>,
• "Gareth J. Greenaway" <gareth@wiked.org> wrote:

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know of a utility that will allow me to do this? I looked at fetchmail but it seems to want to talk to an SMTP server.

fetchmail talks to a pop3 server, smtp is for sending email. You could use fetchmail to bring the mail down from the pop3 server and then use procmail to filter to filter out to the folders that imap will serve from.

There's a misunderstanding here.

In some configurations, fetchmail wants to relay mail that it pops through a local MTA (SMTP server). This is what Brad was referring to: it connects to the POP server, downloads mail, and connects to the local SMTP service to relay the new messages. The ostensible reasons for this are a certain kind of simplicity, and the ability to take advantage of whatever filtering hooks you have plugged into your local MTA.

But for another kind of simplicity, fetchmail can be configured instead to use a local MDA instead of a local MTA. Procmail works fine for this purpose, as does any other program designed to deliver mail locally on sendmail's behalf.

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