local IMAP server

[Lewis NH2]

Good Evening,

I have a SOHO, and I like to access/answer my emails from every
workstations. Of course everything should be kept up-to-sync.
Furthermore, I'd like to avoid storing all emails on my ISP. Having a
local IMAP server and fetching automatically the emails from my ISP
sounds quite promising at first glance.

I plan to go for fetchmail to retrieve the email from the ISP and
dovecot to provide the local IMAP server. Now I am a bit unsure about
the setup. As far as I can see, it seems that most solutions found on
the net involves a 3rd agent, for instance procmail.

Is it possible to go only with fetchmail and dovecot? If I understood
correctly, dovecot comes up with a LDA that can be directly evoked
from fetchmail using the mda directive. Is this correct?

Does someone have succeed in setting such configuration up?

As I am a noob regarding emails servers technology, any help, advice,
pointers would be greatly appreciated.

TIA,
Lew.