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On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 11:16 AM, Ralph Seichter |
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<m16+gentoo@×××××××××××.net> 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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While Postfix certainly won't serve up email via IMAP it definitely |
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does store email. You are correct that you'd run a separate IMAP |
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server. They need not be on the same host assuming they can both get |
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at the maildirs. |
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Rich |
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