On Sun, 2004-07-18 at 14:10, Charles Heselton wrote: > 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. > > -snip- > 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? > exactly.
