local imap server using fetchmail

[Bryan Liles]

Lovell Mcilwain wrote:

> I have installed fetchmail and cyrus imap rpms on my machine in the 
> hopes to be able to configure them so that I can run a local imap 
> server that downloads my remote e mail and then serves it via IMAP on 
> my local machine.
>
> But I can't seem to be able to figure out how to configure them so 
> they work together.  I have been trying to do this for months and have 
> not had any success.  Can anyone point me to a site or howto that 
> shows me how to do this step my step?  Most of the sites I have seen 
> show me how to do this from a compiled version of both but I was not 
> able to compile and install them properly which is why I moved to rpms.


I find dovecot much easier to work with as opposed to cyrus.  Maybe you 
can give that a try.