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My desire: use IMAP for all my iOS and OSX devices to forget about the synchronization nightmare when using POP.
My ISP only provides POP3, and I can fetch emails from his POP3 server so they end up in my mail client on any OSX workstation.
But I want to use IMAP via the Dovecot email server on OSX server mountain lion.
How do I implement that missing link?
Can this be done by a cron script, mimicking a MTA?
Somehow the OSX mailserver cannot be convinced to fetch the emails from the POP3 server at the Internet Server Provider (ISP).
All the OSX or iOS device connects to my OSX Mountain Lion server running the mailserver (i.e. Dovecot).
In my private network sending emails and fetching them using IMAP already works fine.
I am lost on this one. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks already.
best regards,
Bolko

One solution is to use a server based software (i.e. that runs on OS X server) which polls a remote POP3 server and delivers mail to an SMTP server — the Postfix SMTP server on your OS X server (NOT Dovecot, Postfix is the SMTP server which then hands off mail to Dovecot the IMAP on your OS X server)
This software would have to be installed 'by hand' meaning you have to download the source and compile it as is standard with Linux type utilities.
Here is link to the utility 'fetchmail'.
http://fetchmail.berlios.de/index.html
You may want to confirm with the package maintainers that this would work on OS X. If you are not comfortable working at the level of installing Linux packages then I would advise not to proceed.
UPDATE: I found this page on the Apple developers website:
http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/ man1/fetchmail.1.html
it refers to the fetchmail program above so it looks like it runs OK on OS X, but you still have to manually set it up.
Another option is this software
http://www.sspi-software.com/mailfwd_macx.html
I don't have any experience with it personally and I don't know if it can run as a service (that is with no-one logged into the machine).

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