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
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