From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D635D138AE9 for ; Sun, 26 Nov 2017 10:25:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9FD00E0E86; Sun, 26 Nov 2017 10:25:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gw2.antarean.org (gw2.antarean.org [141.105.125.208]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 353DEE0D09 for ; Sun, 26 Nov 2017 10:25:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gw2.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F17A5121A47 for ; Sun, 26 Nov 2017 11:19:04 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at antarean.org Received: from gw2.antarean.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (gw2.antarean.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id nt2qYVsOxHir for ; Sun, 26 Nov 2017 11:19:04 +0100 (CET) Received: from mailstore1.antarean.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gw2.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11489121A34 for ; Sun, 26 Nov 2017 11:19:04 +0100 (CET) Received: from [10.165.7.23] (unknown [62.72.193.100]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mailstore1.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 359C432 for ; Sun, 26 Nov 2017 11:25:28 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2017 10:25:26 +0000 In-Reply-To: References: <2105357.N7kWRluRGt@peak> <67a25925-c802-460d-99da-84a3b8cacc2a@monksofcool.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up fetchmail to feed postfix To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: "J. Roeleveld" Message-ID: <956CE288-9970-4808-85C6-34F32AA193D5@antarean.org> X-Archives-Salt: 50c34198-0970-4422-bcea-4989880d9730 X-Archives-Hash: 411932db723ba93b5b89d1edc23c27e9 On 24 November 2017 18:30:22 GMT+01:00, Rich Freeman w= rote: >On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 11:16 AM, Ralph Seichter > wrote: >> On 24=2E11=2E17 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=2E >> >> Postfix is an MTA and does neither store email nor lets you access >email >> via IMAP=2E There must be an IMAP server in your mix somewhere (e=2Eg= =2E >> Dovecot or Courier)=2E >> > >While Postfix certainly won't serve up email via IMAP it definitely >does store email=2E You are correct that you'd run a separate IMAP >server=2E They need not be on the same host assuming they can both get >at the maildirs=2E I would let the mailstore (Cyrus, Dovecot,=2E=2E=2E) do the actual storing= of the email and have the MTA (postfix, sendmail,=2E=2E=2E) pass it via LM= TP or similar=2E That way any indexes and metadata is handled properly=2E -- Joost --=20 Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail=2E Please excuse my brevity=2E