On Thursday 03 December 2015 19:47:20 deloptes wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > mail_location = maildir:~/Mail > I should then remove those other defaults from 10-mail.conf then? > would be the correct one, as it says it is maildir format means > anything under Mail is your mail and imap will handle the rest > > however this will impact Kmail if you try to read/write in same > directory. This is why my advise - rethink the whole setup. > This particular folder, TDE, is the only folder that would be setup for write access because I keep sent-mail to this list in this folder, but that can be redirected to sent-mail here, or even on the clients box. I'd prefer here, but its convenience, not mandatory. Any other activity would be read-only unless dovecot needs write just to mark a msg as read. > Use > mail_location = maildir:/var/spool/dovecot/%u/Mail > or similar > > You would use Kmail as imap client and not as local mailbox reader ;-) > Forget that local reader part - you will use whatever imap client to > access the mails from everywhere. This was your task correct? > > log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log > info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.info > etc > is set in /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-logging.conf > These do not exist despite its running without apparent errors. Reading the kmail handbook, the only imap service mentioned is kolab, so I purged dovecot and installed kolabadmin since it appeared the rest of it was installed. Unforch, the manpage is a 8 liner that doesn't say squat, like what the heck is a "Dn" in the fill in the blanks configurator? So ATM that stuff has all been purged again, and I'm hoping someone can tell me how to proceed. So far, when I've started kmail on one of the remote machines and told it to check the mail, its stuck forever but not locked up as it quits fairly normally, and my distribution switch's led's say that no local traffic is being generated. The terminal I start kmail in reports several kilobytes of errors for a 20 minute session trying to get a folder listing from this machine when dovecot is running. The first few are: ====================================== kmail QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave. KGlobal::locale::Warning your global KLocale is being recreated with a valid main component instead of a fake component, this usually means you tried to call i18n related functions before your main component was created. You should not do that since it most likely will not work QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave. "/usr/bin/kmail(19981)" Soprano: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown - The name org.kde.nepomuk.services.nepomukstorage was not provided by any .service files" "/usr/bin/kmail(19981)" Soprano: "QLocalSocket::connectToServer: Invalid name" "/usr/bin/kmail(19981)" Soprano: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown - The name org.kde.nepomuk.services.nepomukstorage was not provided by any .service files" "/usr/bin/kmail(19981)" Soprano: "QLocalSocket::connectToServer: Invalid name" "/usr/bin/kmail(19981)" Soprano: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown - The name org.kde.nepomuk.services.nepomukstorage was not provided by any .service files" "/usr/bin/kmail(19981)" Soprano: "QLocalSocket::connectToServer: Invalid name" kmail(19981) KMKernel::recoverDeadLetters: Autosave directory "/home/gene/.kde/share/apps/kmail/autosave/cur" not found! kmail(19981)/kdecore (KConfigSkeleton) KCoreConfigSkeleton::writeConfig: kmail(19981)/kdecore (KConfigSkeleton) KCoreConfigSkeleton::writeConfig: gene@GO704:~$ kmail(19981)/kdecore (KLibrary) kde4Factory: The library "/usr/lib/kde4/kcm_kmail.so" does not offer a qt_plugin_instance function. kmail(19981)/kdecore (KLibrary) kde3Factory: The library "/usr/lib/kde4/kcm_kmail.so" does not offer an "init_kcm_kmail" function. kmail(19981)/kdecore (KLibrary) kde4Factory: The library "/usr/lib/kde4/kcm_kmail.so" does not offer a qt_plugin_instance function. kmail(19981)/kdecore (KLibrary) kde3Factory: The library "/usr/lib/kde4/kcm_kmail.so" does not offer an "init_kcm_kmail" function. kmail(19981)/kdecore (KLibrary) kde4Factory: The library "/usr/lib/kde4/kcm_kmail.so" does not offer a qt_plugin_instance function. kmail(19981)/kdecore (KLibrary) kde3Factory: The library "/usr/lib/kde4/kcm_kmail.so" does not offer an "init_kcm_kmail" function. kmail(19981)/kdecore (KLibrary) kde4Factory: The library "/usr/lib/kde4/kcm_kmail.so" does not offer a qt_plugin_instance function. kmail(19981)/kdecore (KLibrary) kde3Factory: The library "/usr/lib/kde4/kcm_kmail.so" does not offer an "init_kcm_kmail" function. kmail(19981)/kdecore (KLibrary) kde4Factory: The library "/usr/lib/kde4/kcm_kmail.so" does not offer a qt_plugin_instance function. kmail(19981)/kdecore (KLibrary) kde3Factory: The library "/usr/lib/kde4/kcm_kmail.so" does not offer an "init_kcm_kmail" function. kmail(19981)/kdecore (KLibrary) kde4Factory: The library "/usr/lib/kde4/kcm_kmail.so" does not offer a qt_plugin_instance function. kmail(19981)/kdecore (KLibrary) kde3Factory: The library "/usr/lib/kde4/kcm_kmail.so" does not offer an "init_kcm_kmail" function. kmail(19981)/kdecore (KLibrary) kde4Factory: The library "/usr/lib/kde4/kcm_kmail.so" does not offer a qt_plugin_instance function. kmail(19981)/kdecore (KLibrary) kde3Factory: The library "/usr/lib/kde4/kcm_kmail.so" does not offer an "init_kcm_kmail" function. kmail(19981)/kdecore (KLibrary) kde4Factory: The library "/usr/lib/kde4/kcm_kmail.so" does not offer a qt_plugin_instance function. kmail(19981)/kdecore (KLibrary) kde3Factory: The library "/usr/lib/kde4/kcm_kmail.so" does not offer an "init_kcm_kmail" function. kmail(19981)/kdecore (KLibrary) kde4Factory: The library "/usr/lib/kde4/kcm_kmail.so" does not offer a qt_plugin_instance function. kmail(19981)/kdecore (KLibrary) kde3Factory: The library "/usr/lib/kde4/kcm_kmail.so" does not offer an "init_kcm_kmail" function. kmail(19981)/kdecore (KLibrary) kde4Factory: The library "/usr/lib/kde4/kcm_kmail.so" does not offer a qt_plugin_instance function. kmail(19981)/kdecore (KLibrary) kde3Factory: The library "/usr/lib/kde4/kcm_kmail.so" does not offer an "init_kcm_kmail" function. kmail(19981)/kdecore (KLibrary) kde4Factory: The library "/usr/lib/kde4/kcm_kmail.so" does not offer a qt_plugin_instance function. kmail(19981)/kdecore (KLibrary) kde3Factory: The library "/usr/lib/kde4/kcm_kmail.so" does not offer an "init_kcm_kmail" function. kmail(19981)/kdecore (KLibrary) kde4Factory: The library "/usr/lib/kde4/kcm_kmail.so" does not offer a qt_plugin_instance function. kmail(19981)/kdecore (KLibrary) kde3Factory: The library "/usr/lib/kde4/kcm_kmail.so" does not offer an "init_kcm_kmail" function. [0xaf820af0] main input error: ES_OUT_RESET_PCR called gpgconf: warning: can not open config file /home/gene/.gnupg/gpg.conf: No such file or directory gpgconf: warning: can not open config file /home/gene/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf: No such file or directory gpgconf: warning: can not open config file /home/gene/.gnupg/scdaemon.conf: No such file or directory gpgconf: warning: can not open config file /home/gene/.gnupg/gpgsm.conf: No such file or directory gpgconf: warning: can not open config file /home/gene/.gnupg/dirmngr.conf: No such file or directory gpgconf: warning: can not open list file /home/gene/.gnupg/dirmngr_ldapservers.conf: No such file or directory [0x8839430] main input error: ES_OUT_RESET_PCR called X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3 Major opcode: 20 (X_GetProperty) Resource id: 0x62001b1 X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3 Major opcode: 20 (X_GetProperty) Resource id: 0x6200216 ============================== And it gets even more verbose but also repeats itself at length. I feel the answer is likely dovecot related, and I'm just not holding my mouth right, or something equally silly. > regards > Thanks. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>