[H-GEN] conventional wisdom

[David Jericho]

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On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 03:27:15PM +1000, Sarah Hollings wrote:
> This must be one of those questions that now has a generally agreed apon
> optimal answer:
> 	email is on a POP server A (eg ISP),
> 	pull it down onto another server B (mine),
> 	access it via IMAP
> 	-: how to do?

Well, I'm assuming here you have only one user having their mail
dropped into the POP folder on server A, so you're only delivering to
one user on server B.

If that's the case, and you're running an SMTP enabled MTA on server
B, the below .fetchmailrc file will do the job nicely 
(fetchmail -d <check time>)

poll server.a with proto POP3
       user 'sarah' there with password 'password' is 'sarah' here

See fetchmail(1).

> The third one is already being done (tho' I have a hurdle of IMAP shared
> folders to solve yet).

If you're using Courier IMAP, it's actually fairly easy. Check the
documentation. 

-- 
David Jericho
Senior Systems Administrator, Bytecomm Pty Ltd


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