On Wednesday 02 December 2015 13:08:05 Gene Heskett wrote:

> Greetings all;

Let me reword this to clarify what I'd like to do.

> There are times when I would find it expedient to be able to run kmail
> on one of the other machines I have trinity installed on, which isn't
> all of them.

Running kmail on the other machines as an imap client, talking to this 
machine.

> How hard would it be to setup a server on this machine, which has
> R14.0.2 on it, all working as a pop client from 2 external mail
> accounts I have, referencing the nominally 12Gb of an email corpus
> here, so I could access it from a kmail session on another machine,
> still on my local network?

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?

The server, courier or dovecot, whatever might be recommended should 
adapt itself to the kmail storage tree, not by fiddling with it. Sending 
a reply could even be by std smtp, with the reply copy kept on the 
individual machine as opposed to writing that back to kmails sent-mail 
folder, although that would centralize that.  In either event, amanda 
will back it up every night.

Is this possible?

Thanks.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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