Gene Heskett wrote:


> 
> And I don't want to have dovecot make a copy of whats here just to get it
> all in one directory for dovecots convenience.  One folder alone, the
> biggest, is at 90,000 msgs now.  And kmail takes about 10 seconds to
> find a new message in all that.  I do expire the majority of the folders
> in a week or so, but keep several for archival purposes too.
> 
> I can reinstall dovecot, and set the source path up as it was before, but
> I think my 'failure to communicate' from the remote machine was in not
> telling dovecot who might come calling.
> 

Gene,
again you are mixing the local mail directory on the machine you have the
mail (~/Mail). This is local mailbox - it is meant to be for end user.

What you are trying to do is serve the mailbox to other clients. For this
the best would be to movie your ~/Mail in /var/spool/dovecot/%u/Mail and
configure your KMail on all machines to use IMAP to access the mail via
user <user>. You just replace <user> with whatever user

I think it is straight forward and simple as it is supposed to be used that
way. 
You can also protect that with custom SSL and configure IMAP to use your
certs, which will round it up to professional level.

I hope this helps

regards