On 30/06/2011 14:08, Shazia Javed wrote:
Thank you for the reply. Now I have relatively better understanding of Dovecot
and email service components (MUA, MTA, MRA, etc). However, I am still
struggling with the relevant conceptual understanding, and need your help:
I have installed 'getmail' a
Shazia Javed writes:
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to 127.0.0.1.
Escape character is '^]'.
* OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE
STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN] Dovecot ready.
...
telnet mail.ut.ee 143
Trying 193.40.5.156...
Connected to mailhost.ut.ee.
Escape character is
On 29/06/2011 13:19, Shazia Javed wrote:
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Objective:
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We need to download emails from remote server using Dovecot and thunderbird.
Dovecot doesn't download e-mail from other servers.
Our objective is to store emails in maildir or mbox form
On 6/29/2011 7:19 AM, Shazia Javed wrote:
> As is obvious from the commands and output listed above that dovecot is
> running, listening on 110 and 143 - but only for localhost. When I try to
> telnet mail.ut.ee 110/143 I get to see IMAP4/POP3 ready rather than
> Dovecot ready.
It seems obvious t
Hi,
What makes you think that e-mail retrieval from remote servers should
be over Dovecot?
Is 193.40.5.156 running Dovecot that it should say "Dovecot ready." ?
I think what you need fetchmail or getmail. Dovecot is a MTA, not a MRA.
Best,
Kerem
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Shazia Javed
