[imp] Collect remote mail to local server/db?

[Simon Brereton]

On Oct 8, 2012 5:01 AM, "Arjen de Korte" <arjen+horde at de-korte.org> wrote:
>
> Citeren Nathaniel Baughman <n.e.baughman at gmail.com>:
>
>
>> Greetings Horde/IMP community,
>>
>> I am seeking to centralize access to all of my various email accounts
into one
>> Web-based client interface. Horde Webmail (with IMP) sounds like the
best bet so
>> far.
>>
>> I plan to set up Horde Webmail on a (sub-)domain of my own, for my own
personal
>> use (not a corporate/community site).
>>
>> I have two questions for the community:
>>
>> a) On http://www.horde.org/apps/webmail, the bullet "Fetching of
messages from
>> external email accounts" is crossed off. This sounds like the very
feature I
>> need. Can someone please clarify why this is crossed off?
>>
>> b) Instead of leaving my email on all the remote IMAP/POP3 servers, I
would like
>> to collect (that is, fetch and remove remotely) all my mail from those
remote
>> servers and store them locally (on the local server/db). I still need to
be able
>> to send mail as each of my remote identities.
>>
>> I have not found any Webmail software that performs this function.
>
>
> Horde won't do either. The reason is that webmail is basically a client
that makes messages available that are stored in (usually) an IMAP server.
As such it doesn't collect messages from the IMAP server(s).

The ability to do this from multiple IMAP servers would be a huge benefit
though.  Other MTA's can manage it.

>> I could probably find a third-party service to consolidate my email, but
I'd
>> prefer to host this myself (and I really like the other features of Horde
>> Webmail, like a calendar and task list).
>>
>> I understand that I could run my own IMAP server, then cron some
fetchmail
>> scripts to collect the mail to my local IMAP, then have IMP configured
to use
>> this dedicated IMAP server (instead of talking to the remote ones).
>>
>> Is there a simpler approach?
>
>
> No. What you need is indeed something like Fetchmail+Postfix+Dovecot,
which will be able to retrieve message from remote servers (Fetchmail),
store them locally (Postfix) and make them available for Horde's IMP
through IMAP (Dovecot).
>
> Best regards, Arjen
>
>
>> Thanks for any community input you can provide!