Email questions (server and not)

[Bimmer]

here's my dilemna, I've searched and searched, read and read and maybe I'm just not getting it but this is what I want to do

I have a pop3 account from my isp
and a hotmail account

all i need to do is this

fetch my mail from these 2 sources, possibly more later on, and push them to my .maildir directory in order to set up a web based and imap server on my home based server

at a later time or even now I wouldn't mind setting up spam filters but that can be later

from my understanding this can be accomplished by these methods ?

ISP/hotmail > fetchmail > postfix > .maildir > courier-imap > email client/squirrel-mail

or ?

ISP/hotmail > fetchmail > procmail > .maildir > courier-imap > email client/squirrel-mail

please lmk if i'm missing something and or specific settings/steps i need to make sure of

Thanks,
Abirinder

P.S., i'm trying to set this up as I just got a job on residence and it is very heavily email dependent and I would like a place for permanent storage of emails

[NightSpirit]

For the second time today I am going to promote this link https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=83500

I have used this on my home server and again as a server for family. Fetchmail grabs mail from about 5 POP2 boxes, Exim pipes through SpamAssassin and ClamAV and then delivers to user's .maildir and users collect via Courier-imap or Courier-pop3. If you have POP3 access for hotmail then it should be simple enough to add to Fetchmail. I have not tried squirrel-mail but a search in these forums should bring up help with configuring that.
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