Re: [LUG] Evolution Migration to Thunderbird

[Julian Hall <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Neil Williams wrote:

> Alternative, useful for dial-up users, use fetchmail to collect the 
> mail and then serve it using IMAP across the local intranet. That's 
> what I do - my IMAP serves three machines and multiple clients on 2 
> platforms.
I work for two of the ISPs I use.. we don't support IMAP.

I've installed fetchmail and it looks pretty simple to configure either 
by Webmin or fetchmail.conf off the menu.

What I'm not clear about is running the IMAP server.  I assume that it 
can pick up mail for different accounts, or would fetchmail just dump 
everything from every mail account into one box?  The reason I ask is I 
have 8 accounts I check:  On my domain my main account, my linux only 
account, wine mail account, webmaster account, my Dad's mail, my Mum's 
mail; My NTLWorld account;  My Virgin account.  NB just set the last two 
up to forward to my main domain address.  Provided the forwarding 
behaves I'll still have 6 boxes delivering to me.  How will I be able to 
differentiate incoming mail? :)

Can I tell fetchmail to deliver to say /home/jules/mail/dadsmail for 
him, /home/jules/mail/mumsmail etc etc?

I'm not expecting anyone to spoonfeed me, but if someone could point me 
in the direction of an easy to follow Man page I'd appreciate it :)

Kind regards,

Julian

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