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