4 Dec
2015
4 Dec
'15
6:39 p.m.
On Friday 04 December 2015 02:50:02 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 3. Dezember 2015 schrieb Gene Heskett:
Tried that from an ssh -Y login to GO704 just now.
That claims that kmail is already running, which of course it is,
on /this/ machine, and while a root htop session on /sshnet/GO704 shows
akanadi etc running there, no kmail is showing. Since it is this
machines kmail that handles the fetching and sorting to the proper
folders, this one should remain in operation to handle incoming mail.
Cannot each session of kmail on the remote machines maintain its own
read mail database, obviating any need for the remote session of kmail
to have write perms, with that potential for a clash between kmails
wrecking the whole party?
That means that I would have to do a session of mark all read to keep
those databases in sync if I am at one of the other 3 machines, as a way
to keep from having to read the whole, large fraction of a million
messages each time I ran kmail on the remote machine from its own
console.
Thanks Nic.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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On Thursday 03 December 2015 06:56:53 deloptes
wrote:
Knowing where it keeps its log would help. Its running, hasn't
reported any errordbut no logfile can be found. I also asked kmail
on one of the machines to access kit, and then had to leave for
about 5 hours. at the end of which that " client" kmail was still
trying to read the server.
dovecot -n reports:
# 2.1.7: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 3.4-9-amd64 x86_64 Debian 7.9
mail_location = maildir:~/Mail/*/cur
mail_plugins = IMAP
namespace inbox {
inbox = yes
location =
mailbox Drafts {
special_use = \Drafts
}
mailbox Junk {
special_use = \Junk
}
mailbox Sent {
special_use = \Sent
}
mailbox "Sent Messages" {
special_use = \Sent
}
mailbox Trash {
special_use
Hints?
Thank you.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
Hi Gene!
I might miss the point, but what would happen if you just run kmail on
the remote comuter - that where your mails are and where you have
kmail working - like this:
$ ssh -X gene@remote /opt/trinity/bin/kmail
Nik How hard
would it be to setup an imap server on this machine,
that uses the existing email corpus database, /home/gene/Mail,
and serves it to any other kmail agents running on my local
network?
I am using devecot imap on the server at home and access the
mailbox on that server from multiple clients. There is nothing
special for that.
You have to tell dovecot where your mail is and in which format.
usually I would configure the server side mailbox aside from the
home directory.
You could use imap to copy your local mailbox data to the server
dir after you set it up once.
This is in /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-mail.conf
you can use anything like fetchmail to get mails to the mailbox
and serve it to all clients. If you have any other pop3 accounts.
This is what I would do. Thus you collect your mails in one
mailbox and access them via imap by any client.
I also had my mailbox set in the user home years ago and this was
I guess by default set by Kmail, but turned to be misleading.
However the flexibility of all this is so big that there is surely
a way to get what you want or get it really wrong.
I hope this helps