serving pop3

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Sunday, July 18, 2004 11:37 AM -0700 Charles Heselton 
<charles.heselton at gmail.com> wrote:

> Anyhow, can Dovecot be used as a mail filter/proxy?  Basically what I
> would be interested in doing is have dovecot download my email from my
> ISP accounts.  Then I would set my client to point to my internal
> server.  Is this possible?  Worthwhile?

As others have suggested, fetchmail downloads mail from other servers and 
redelivers it using the local MTA (eg. postfix or sendmail). Dovecot serves 
mail already on the server to POP3/IMAP clients.