Re: fetching mail (but not fetchmail)
On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 00:33:42 -0600 David Kelly dke...@hiwaay.net wrote: Mail.app, Outlook, or Firefox. But in doing this you are not giving up the ability to do mail on your console. ... When using maildir format both mutt and dovecot can operate out of the same mail repository at the same time. mutt and [al]pine support imap, and dovecot works more efficiently if you don't modify, or deliver to, the mail store without going through imap or deliver. BTW no-one has mentioned getmail. getmail can deliver to an mda or maildir and pipe though spam/virus filters itself. In combination with the sieve support in dovecot deliver you can drop procmail altogether. ___ 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
Re: fetching mail (but not fetchmail)
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
fetching mail (but not fetchmail)
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 :/ ) C- ___ 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
Re: fetching mail (but not fetchmail)
On 24/12/2010 03:27, 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 :/ ) fetchmail -- http://fetchmail.berlios.de/ plus dovecot -- http://www.dovecot.org/ They're in ports. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: fetching mail (but not fetchmail)
n Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 12:47 AM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: On 24/12/2010 03:27, 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 :/ ) fetchmail -- http://fetchmail.berlios.de/ plus dovecot -- http://www.dovecot.org/ They're in ports. Cheers, Matthew Thanks but I I think maybe I wasn't entirely clear. With fetchmail (which is why I said but not fetchmail in the subject) I very well can download all my mail. For reading locally, on the console (not what I had in mind). Or is this where dovecot comes into play? To prepare the previously fetched mail and prepare it for pop/imap access? ___ 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
Re: fetching mail (but not fetchmail)
On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 01:01:48 -0500, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: Thanks but I I think maybe I wasn't entirely clear. With fetchmail (which is why I said but not fetchmail in the subject) I very well can download all my mail. For reading locally, on the console (not what I had in mind). Or is this where dovecot comes into play? To prepare the previously fetched mail and prepare it for pop/imap access? No. The fetchmail program usually fetches (copies and flushes, or not flushes) the POP mailbox and places the content on your local machine into your user's mailbox, /var/mail/$USER. From there on, you can do with the mail what you want, e. g. view it with mail (from the base system), incorporate from spool into Sylpheed, Thunderbird, pine, whatever program you want, or continue processing with another program (e. g. to transfer the messages elsewhere - this is where docevot enters the scene). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: fetching mail (but not fetchmail)
On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 01:01:48 -0500, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: Thanks but I I think maybe I wasn't entirely clear. With fetchmail (which is why I said but not fetchmail in the subject) I very well can download all my mail. For reading locally, on the console (not what I had in mind). Or is this where dovecot comes into play? To prepare the previously fetched mail and prepare it for pop/imap access? No. The fetchmail program usually fetches (copies and flushes, or not flushes) the POP mailbox and places the content on your local machine into your user's mailbox, /var/mail/$USER. From there on, you can do with the mail what you want, e. g. view it with mail (from the base system), incorporate from spool into Sylpheed, Thunderbird, pine, whatever program you want, or continue processing with another program (e. g. to transfer the messages elsewhere - this is where docevot enters the scene). Ok so fetchmail is step 1, step 2 is to unleash dovecet on /var/mail/$USER and then just point ex: thunderbird at my local server:port and happy hunting? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: fetching mail (but not fetchmail)
On Dec 24, 2010, at 12:01 AM, Chris Brennan wrote: Thanks but I I think maybe I wasn't entirely clear. With fetchmail (which is why I said but not fetchmail in the subject) I very well can download all my mail. For reading locally, on the console (not what I had in mind). Or is this where dovecot comes into play? To prepare the previously fetched mail and prepare it for pop/imap access? Yes, that is exactly what he was saying. Fetchmail puts it where ever you tell it to. All you have to do is put the email where dovecot can find it in a format dovecot understands. You can think of dovecot as a remote controlled email reader, one which can be driven by Mail.app, Outlook, or Firefox. But in doing this you are not giving up the ability to do mail on your console. When using maildir format both mutt and dovecot can operate out of the same mail repository at the same time. For example I use ~/Maildir/ and the maildir format. Also use procmail for initial sorting and filtering with bogofilter. In my .fetchmailrc like this: defaults proto pop3 fetchall mda /usr/local/bin/procmail -d dkelly .procmailrc something like this: MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir/ #you'd better make sure it exists DEFAULT=/var/mail/$LOGNAME # Make a copy of everything incoming: :0 c $HOME/Mail_Backup/ # Add a Lines: header if one is lacking, so mutt knows a message's size :0 Bfh * H ?? !^Lines: * -1^0 * 1^1 ^.*$ | formail -A Lines: $= # bogofilter -u trains all tokens as spam or non-spam :0 HB: * ? bogofilter -u .spam/ # detect dupes :0 Whc: msgid.lock | formail -D 131072 msgid.cache # divert dupes :0 a: .dups/ # ultimate point of delivery :0 ./ The above .procmail puts a copy of everything in ~/Mail_Backup/ just in case. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ 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
