serving pop3

[Jeff Vian]

On Sun, 2004-07-18 at 14:10, Charles Heselton wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 11:56:22 -0700, Kenneth Porter
> <shiva at sewingwitch.com> wrote:
> > --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.
> > 

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> OK.  So, in order to accomplish what I'm wanting to do, I would have
> to use fetchmail to retrieve the mail from my ISP.  Then configure
> dovecot to serve it to my POP3 client?
> 

exactly.