On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Polytropon <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 01:01:48 -0500, Chris Brennan <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Thanks but I I think maybe I wasn't entirely clear. With fetchmail (which > is > > why I said but not fetchmail in the subject) I very well can download all > my > > mail. For reading locally, on the console (not what I had in mind). Or is > > this where dovecot comes into play? To prepare the previously fetched > mail > > and prepare it for pop/imap access? > > No. The fetchmail program usually fetches (copies and flushes, > or not flushes) the POP mailbox and places the content on your > local machine into your user's mailbox, /var/mail/$USER. From > there on, you can do with the mail what you want, e. g. view > it with mail (from the base system), incorporate "from spool" > into Sylpheed, Thunderbird, pine, whatever program you want, > or continue processing with another program (e. g. to transfer > the messages elsewhere - this is where docevot enters the > scene). > > Ok so fetchmail is step 1, step 2 is to unleash dovecet on /var/mail/$USER and then just point ex: thunderbird at my local server:port and happy hunting? _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
