Am Donnerstag, 3. Dezember 2015 schrieb Gene Heskett:
On Thursday 03 December 2015 06:56:53 deloptes wrote:
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
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