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

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