On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 10:27:32PM -0500, Chris Brennan wrote: > Bit of an odd question. But I will try. Is it possible to set up some > mechanism (in freebsd or maybe gentoo (doesn't matter to me)) to pop/imap > into my mail location and download everything as storage and then I imap to > my local machine to read my mail. I realize I can pop/imap directly into my > mail, the goal of this exorcise is to store my mail on one of my local > servers and not my windows machine which can change at a moment's notice. (I > just don't like the idea of permanent/long-term storage in Windows :/ )
I've got a fetchmail + procmail combination, where fetchmail retrieves it from a remote POP3 server and procmail is the local MDA which converts it to Maildir format (which can be read by my local IMAP server). My ~/.fetchmailrc looks like this: poll pop3.vodafone.co.nz protocol pop3 username "myusername" password "mypassword" mda /usr/local/bin/procmail sslproto "" And ~/.procmailrc looks like: # # # Trailing / for Maildir MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir/ DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/ ... Hope that helps. -- Jonathan Chen <j...@chen.org.nz> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Don't worry about avoiding temptation, as you grow older, it starts avoiding you. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"