[olug] caching mail locally

[Jay Swackhamer]

I've used fetchmail to get remote mail for domains and parse it out  
into one account or several.

It's  a really simple setup, just install it, and setup a .fetchmailrc  
like below.

poll mail.example.com proto pop3
      user 'USERNAME' there with password 'p@$$w0rd' is jswackh here

then setup a crontab to run fetchmail

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Quoting charles.bird at powerdnn.com:

> Concerning #2, most mail is just plain text with a file type   
> appended to the end of the name of the message, however, the way the  
>  actual message naming works with each file, I'm not sure of, I have  
>  seen scripts that will convert existing mail for export
>
>
>
>
> ------Original Message------
> From: Tim & Alethea Larson
> Sender: olug-bounces at olug.org
> To: Omaha Linux User Group
> ReplyTo: Omaha Linux User Group
> Subject: [olug] caching mail locally
> Sent: Oct 22, 2009 5:52 PM
>
> Two questions:
>
> 1) I'd like to pull my Cox mail to a local server so that I can access
> it from multiple PCs in the house, maintaining a single mailbox and not
> creating havoc.  I've been looking at getmail (POP3 fetch) and Courier
> (local IMAP) to do this.  Has anyone done something similar?  If there
> are any caveats here, I'd like to know before I jump in.
>
> 2) We currently have years worth of email stored locally.  We use
> Thunderbird as our client.  I don't know what format it uses, but I'm
> trying to find out if there's a way to convert this to the maildir
> format so I can drop it all out on the server.
>
> Any thoughts/ideas/suggestions appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Tim
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