Re: getting mail from Exchange/Outlook
On Thursday 14 September 2017 12:02:31 John Hasler wrote:
> Gene writes:
> > I have, live, a 5 machine home network here, and IMO here is where
> > imap belongs, so I could do my email from any of these machines by
> > pulling from their server with fetchmail, and making it available to
> > any of these machines by imaping it. But I have been told,
> > repeatedly, that such an interfaceing between the maildir/mailfile
> > filtered incoming pop3'd messages database that kmail maintains and
> > a dovecot local server working from that email corpus is not
> > possible.
>
> Why do you want to involve kmail at that level? Have fetchmail
> deliver to dovecot, either directly or after filtering by mailagent,
> procmail, or similar. Dovecot should also be able to run
> spamassassin. If it can't, use exim4.
I've no experience, even reading about it on these various lists. How
hard is it to setup?
I have been tempted to add a new drive, mounted at ~/mymail, and just
copy the while ~/Mail tree to it just so I can do a full new jessie or
maybe even stretch install w/o losing a several gigabyte email corpus.
exim4's man page is scary, its a swiss army knife.
I have to go get a tooth pulled, I'm outta here for the day.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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