dovecot - Apr 2009 - How do I get my mail from fetchmail into dovecot

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> Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:53:49 +0300
> From: Odhiambo  ????? <odhiambo at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] How do I get my mail from fetchmail into
> 	dovecot?
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> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Michael Steinbeck-Reeves <
> michael at steinbeck-reeves.uk.com> wrote:
> 
> > I have dovecot (with squirrel mail etc.) running without any problems
> > but cannot understand how to get e-mail from a pop server into
dovecot.
> > I have fetchmail configured to pick up the mail from the pop3 server
but
> > don't understand how to get it from there into my dovecot mbox
> 
> 
> Where does fetchmail put the e-mails?
> Point dovecot there with "mail_location =..." then use your
favorite MuA to
> access the e-mail.
That is the problem, fetchmail just forwards it to port 25 (I think) and
I need to work out what to put between fetchmail and dovecot in order to
get the mail into the correct folders...

And I am just going around in circles on this at the moment. Any hint
would be appreciated!

Thanks,

Michael

On Qua, 29 Abr 2009, Michael Steinbeck-Reeves wrote:
> That is the problem, fetchmail just forwards it to port 25 (I think) and
> I need to work out what to put between fetchmail and dovecot in order to
> get the mail into the correct folders...
A MTA (Mail Tranfer Agent), such as exim, postfix or others.

Though there might be a way to configure fetchmail to store directly  
in the mail store, but I'm not sure (I don't use it).

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Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
eduardo at kalinowski.com.br

> I have dovecot (with squirrel mail etc.) running without any problems
> but cannot understand how to get e-mail from a pop server into dovecot.
> I have fetchmail configured to pick up the mail from the pop3 server but
> don't understand how to get it from there into my dovecot mbox
configure dovecot-deliver as MDA for fetchmail.

If you use system users, calling "deliver" should be sufficient.

On virtual users, you probably need to pass the correct recipient to 
deliver.


Anton

Michael Steinbeck-Reeves <michael at steinbeck-reeves.uk.com>
wrote:
> [...]
> That is the problem, fetchmail just forwards it to port 25 (I think) and
> I need to work out what to put between fetchmail and dovecot in order to
> get the mail into the correct folders...
>
> And I am just going around in circles on this at the moment. Any hint
> would be appreciated!
You can use mda option provided in fetchmail as SMTP alternative.
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I recommend using procmail as mda in ~/.fetchmailrc e.g.:
  mda "/usr/bin/procmail -tY -m /home/user/.procmail/account-1.rc"
and calling dovecot's deliver inside procmail scripts
  DELIVER="/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver"
  DELIVERFLAGS="-e"

  :0 w
  |$DELIVER $DELIVERFLAGS

Using procmail provides nice hook for extra processing e.g. 
* spam filtering/tagging
* virus detection
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You can make fetchmail use dovecot's deliver direclty in mda option

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