On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 14:13:24 -0500, Mike Kercher <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Correct > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Charles Heselton > > Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2004 2:11 PM > > To: For users of Fedora Core releases > > Subject: Re: serving pop3 > > > > 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 > > > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Cool. Thanks. -- Charlie Heselton Network Security Engineer
