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On Friday, 24 November 2017 16:16:15 GMT Ralph Seichter wrote: |
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> On 24.11.17 16:39, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > I'm trying an evasion, which is to use fetchmail to retrieve emails |
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> > from my ISP and deliver them to postfix, which can then serve them |
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> > via IMAP. |
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> Postfix is an MTA and does neither store email nor lets you access email |
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> via IMAP. There must be an IMAP server in your mix somewhere (e.g. |
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> Dovecot or Courier). |
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Yes, of course. Postfix feeds Dovecot here. |
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> > I still don't know what to add to /etc/ conf.d/fetchmail, nor whether |
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> > I need a ~/.fetchmailrc or an /etc/fetchmailrc file (no sample comes |
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> > with the ebuild). |
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> Your needs depend on what you are trying to achieve, and you have been a |
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> bit vague on the details. |
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That's because I don't yet know enough to know what questions to ask; that's |
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why I hoped I'd be pointed to a general guide or explanation. |
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I thought I was clear enough: I want fetchmail to fetch POP mail and feed it |
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into the local postfix (and of course dovecot) mail system. What else do you |
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need? |
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> If you plan to use a single fetchmail process, |
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> ~foo/.fetchmailrc (with foo being the user you want to run fetchmail as) |
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> usually suffices. |
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I assume you mean ~/.fetchmailrc, a file in my home directory, no? |
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Regards, |
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Peter. |
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