On Thursday 14 September 2017 12:02:31 John Hasler wrote: > Gene writes: > > I have, live, a 5 machine home network here, and IMO here is where > > imap belongs, so I could do my email from any of these machines by > > pulling from their server with fetchmail, and making it available to > > any of these machines by imaping it. But I have been told, > > repeatedly, that such an interfaceing between the maildir/mailfile > > filtered incoming pop3'd messages database that kmail maintains and > > a dovecot local server working from that email corpus is not > > possible. > > Why do you want to involve kmail at that level? Have fetchmail > deliver to dovecot, either directly or after filtering by mailagent, > procmail, or similar. Dovecot should also be able to run > spamassassin. If it can't, use exim4.
I've no experience, even reading about it on these various lists. How hard is it to setup? I have been tempted to add a new drive, mounted at ~/mymail, and just copy the while ~/Mail tree to it just so I can do a full new jessie or maybe even stretch install w/o losing a several gigabyte email corpus. exim4's man page is scary, its a swiss army knife. I have to go get a tooth pulled, I'm outta here for the day. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
