On Wednesday 2 October 2024 20:10:15 BST Wol wrote: > Make sure you set everything up in the local config file - look at the > global file that comes with dovecot, and at the end you'll see a pointer > to a non-existent local file. Set that up, and then make sure your email > client can see it. Move a couple of emails across and make sure they're > safe in dovecot. > > Then you just set up a rule on your internet provider's inbox, that > moves emails across to dovecot, and everything is local on your system. > Obviously, they'll stay on the internet provider's setup until they > expire, but they're on your system, they can be backed up, and they'll > not be on the internet to be mined or broken into or whatever for long.
Not wishing to hijack the thread, but I've been trying for years, intermittently, to get LAN mail working. It did work once, years ago, but I'm damned if I can get it going again now. My problem is not with dovecot but with postfix. Mail originating on the posfix machine goes where it should, but not any from others on the LAN. -- Regards, Peter.
