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Topic: fetch mails from ISP

Hi,

I am thinking about migrating my kopano server to iRedMail.
Before doing so, I am thinking about some basic challenges.
One of those is, that I do not have a fixed IP and I dont want to administer an own real SMTP server.
So - as I have been doing for about 20 years or so - I want to fetch my mails from my ISP.
Now, I looked around in the web for how to do this with iRedMail, but only found some pretty old stuff.
Which approach should I take for this? fetchmail? getmail? different things? I only have two internal accounts (my wife and me).
Thanks in advance and best regards,
Otto

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Re: fetch mails from ISP

in this case, i would suggest imapsync

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Re: fetch mails from ISP

Hi and thanks for your suggestion!
I thought imapsync was a migration tool?
How would you set this up with iRedMail?

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Re: fetch mails from ISP

I am thinking about migrating my kopano server to iRedMail.

Yes, so you need to sync the old mailboxes with the new host, and that is was imapsync is best tool for

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Re: fetch mails from ISP

ah ok. I think I did not ask correctly.
the migration is not my problem (I coud do this with imapsync or thunderbird or whatever).
my question was regarding how to fetch mails from my ISP later. I have been using fetchmail for this for about 20 years or so. I think using dovecot as mda should work with iRedMail?

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Re: fetch mails from ISP

otto wrote:

my question was regarding how to fetch mails from my ISP later.

imapsync can do this too.
Sync from ISP mailbox to iRedMail via IMAP. No need to run fetchmail.

Or, setup mail forwarding on ISP account, forward all received emails to iRedMail server directly, then fetchmail / imapsync are not necessary at all.

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Re: fetch mails from ISP

well, this would be a possibility.but I do not have a fixed IP...

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Re: fetch mails from ISP

otto wrote:

well, this would be a possibility.but I do not have a fixed IP...

then, why you even consider useing it? i dont see any benefits to migrate then, either you host your own mails and use a cheap vps with a fixed ip and open port 25, or you use an external provider (like currently)

but without a fixed ip for your server, it won't work at all, that is nothing what iredmail was made for