Alan,
Basically, I'm going on a test basis at the moment.
I have a pop3 account (Actually 5) that my boss would like to check from
about 4 different computers, with everyone reading the same mail. Hence I
chose an IMAP server, Binc, for it's simplicity.
I had previously heard of fetchmail grabbing mail, and found (from this
list) that fetchmail just basically grabs the mail and sends it to a local
port, well, kinda.
So I installed Postfix, messed around with the configuration and all seems
to be working okay. With a few other adjustments, I basically now use...
Fetchmail + postfix + procmail (For Maildir) + Binc.
And the fetchmail config file? I used:
poll mail.myserver.com
proto pop3
user "user.myserver.com"
pass "password"
is user
nokeep
fetchall
no ssl
Not exactly secure, but till I show my boss when he comes off holiday
*Alright for some*, I'll work on it a bit more.
Thanks for your suggestion about SpamAssassin, I've installed it already and
may start experimenting!
Thanks to everybody for helping, some of you don't even know you did! God
bless the archives....
Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: Alan I [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 27 August 2004 20:24
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [binc] Fetchmail + IMAP
--- Stephen Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> Now, I wonder if you will be able to tell me whether
> my fetchmail idea is
> possible? To tell fetchmail to grab email from a
> POP3 account and place them
> in the INBOX directory?
>
Stephen, can I suggest you be more bold?
I use fetchmail + postfix + procmail + SpamAssassin +
UWIMAP (I was trying to pilot Binc, but I'm too busy
at work to finish the job. Sigh.).
Adding SpamAssassin reduced spam by well over 90%.
I've seen almost no false positive -- none since the
first week or two. You can certainly use your mail
clients' spam filters, but SA prevents the spam from
ever making it to your client. That makes life a lot
easier on my Sidekick (a little wireless PDA with
limited storage).
Anyway, I think fetchmail's default behavior is to
append mail to the mbox at /var/mail/<username> , but
you can change that behavior in the command options or
the ~/.fetchmailrc configuration file.
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