serving pop3

[Charles Heselton]

On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 11:56:22 -0700, Kenneth Porter
<shiva at sewingwitch.com> wrote:
> --On Sunday, July 18, 2004 11:37 AM -0700 Charles Heselton
> <charles.heselton at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Anyhow, can Dovecot be used as a mail filter/proxy?  Basically what I
> > would be interested in doing is have dovecot download my email from my
> > ISP accounts.  Then I would set my client to point to my internal
> > server.  Is this possible?  Worthwhile?
> 
> As others have suggested, fetchmail downloads mail from other servers and
> redelivers it using the local MTA (eg. postfix or sendmail). Dovecot serves
> mail already on the server to POP3/IMAP clients.
> 
> 
> 
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OK.  So, in order to accomplish what I'm wanting to do, I would have
to use fetchmail to retrieve the mail from my ISP.  Then configure
dovecot to serve it to my POP3 client?

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Charlie Heselton
Network Security Engineer