[Dovecot] Three oddities

[Eric S. Johansson]

Bob Hall explained:

> 
> 3)
> We're pulling our e-mail off our ISP's POP server and loading it into 
> Dovecot to allow people to work with their mail from different 
> machines. I'm using getmail to make the transfer. Is anyone else 
> doing POP to IMAP, and how are they doing it? Any suggestions?  

finally a question I can answer.  :-)

if you're not going to have direct SMTP delivery, you are doing it the only way 
you really can.  One refinement would be to collect all e-mail for all addresses 
into a single pop3 box and use multidrop type functionality to retrieve and 
disburse the mail appropriately.

in theory it would be possible to retrieve using pop3 and then push using imap 
but that is too ugly to even contemplate.

---eric