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On 24 November 2017 18:30:22 GMT+01:00, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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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 |
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>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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I would let the mailstore (Cyrus, Dovecot,...) do the actual storing of the email and have the MTA (postfix, sendmail,...) pass it via LMTP or similar. |
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That way any indexes and metadata is handled properly. |
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Joost |
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