On Sunday 22 Jan 2006 23:22, jdow wrote: > > OK, after reading this it is quite obvious you don't understand how > imap works. Fetchmail is not the right tool for this job, or at least > it will be a royal pita to use. > > There is a solution. Now, I'm doing this from my viewpoint in Outlook > Express on an XP machine connected to the Linux machine. With OE the > task is really simple. With other tools YMMV. > That's exactly what I have done on this box, which is the one I mainly read from. > What I do is create two accounts in OE. One for each machine. I > create all the IMAP folders on the second machine that already exist > on the first machine. Then I highlight all the contents of each > folder in order and copy them to the corresponding folder on the > second machine. With enough boring folder pair copies it's done and > Bob's your uncle. > Yes, I copied the messages from one folder across in exactly that way. It works and I can read them both from the second account on this box and from the temporary server, so I'm happy that dovecot is working. > (I really SHOULD read back to see the original question sometimes.) > My problem now is that I'm not able to pull mail in from my isp. I don't run my own mailserver, only imap for the lan. Anne
