Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 01:13:03 -0500 From: Chris Brennan <xaero@xaerolimit.net> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fetching mail (but not fetchmail) Message-ID: <AANLkTimQ7yFJcAM2F43H043fX8MrKmZvEhHw7Pb9sXd%2B@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20101224070743.f6bf35e2.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <AANLkTimeMfGOvBqztdr_HCT3y%2BMFhQomFCvXe2mASLP-@mail.gmail.com> <4D1433F0.9@infracaninophile.co.uk> <AANLkTikVQ630btpU9fMhPyKB=wLtocE89LjojCTUWE9H@mail.gmail.com> <20101224070743.f6bf35e2.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 01:01:48 -0500, Chris Brennan <xaero@xaerolimit.net> > wrote: > > Thanks but I I think maybe I wasn't entirely clear. With fetchmail (which > is > > why I said but not fetchmail in the subject) I very well can download all > my > > mail. For reading locally, on the console (not what I had in mind). Or is > > this where dovecot comes into play? To prepare the previously fetched > mail > > and prepare it for pop/imap access? > > No. The fetchmail program usually fetches (copies and flushes, > or not flushes) the POP mailbox and places the content on your > local machine into your user's mailbox, /var/mail/$USER. From > there on, you can do with the mail what you want, e. g. view > it with mail (from the base system), incorporate "from spool" > into Sylpheed, Thunderbird, pine, whatever program you want, > or continue processing with another program (e. g. to transfer > the messages elsewhere - this is where docevot enters the > scene). > > Ok so fetchmail is step 1, step 2 is to unleash dovecet on /var/mail/$USER and then just point ex: thunderbird at my local server:port and happy hunting?
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