On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 10:06, ISP Lists wrote:
> I'm struggling finding a "howto" on a particular issue:
> 
> I have a webmail/pop3 account, no IMAP.  I do not run that server and only
> have user privs on the email account.  I want to do a ONE-TIME conversion
> to pull the 400+ messages from this account using fetchmail (or whatever
> you recommend) for delivery to my vpopmail user account.
> 
> I run the destination server, it runs vpopmail/courier/mysql, and has a
> domain with the particular ./Maildir account that I want to deliver the
> mail into.
> 
> I was going to use fetchmail -> maildrop -> ./Maildir
> 
> I was doing okay pulling together information to accomplish this until I
> realized that I didn't have a local account for maildrop since the
> destination account is a virtual user in vpopmail
> (/home/vpopmail/domains/example.com/username/Maildir)
> 
> Does anybody have some guidance on where I should go to cook up a solution?
> All help appreciated!  Thanks, Dave.

You're fine just using Fetchmail - after that, IMHO, you're overcomplicating it with 
maildrop :)

I do fetchmail like so:
/usr/local/bin/fetchmail -s -f /home/root/fetchmail/fetchmail2.rc

where fetcmail2.rc contains:
poll mail.com.com proto POP3 user "username" pass "password" smtpname [EMAIL 
PROTECTED] fetchall

Basically grab anything from the remote user's mailbox and redirect it via smtp 
to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.   Then your SMTP setup takes care of the delivery as if all 
those 
emails came in to your localuser originally.

Rick

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