On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 11:56:22 -0700, Kenneth Porter <shiva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > --On Sunday, July 18, 2004 11:37 AM -0700 Charles Heselton > <charles.heselton@xxxxxxxxx> 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. > > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > 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? -- Charlie Heselton Network Security Engineer
