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

[David Terei]

Hey All,

Id just like to start by thanking Timo Sirainen and any others that
helped produce such a great IMAP server, it was a breeze to set up with
no previous experience in mail servers.

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.

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?

So any help would be greatly appreciated as well as advice on which
software to use, the getmail site attacks fetchmail quite strongly, but
I'm not sure of its performance being written in Python as I'm running
on an old Pentium MMX(100MHz) using OpenBSD 3.7.

Sorry for the long email I never can seem to keep them short :)

Cheers,

	David Terei