On Friday 04 December 2015 12:00:54 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > Hi Gene! > > > Let's see if I get it right this time: > > incomming mail: > external mailserver --> fetchmail --> local mailbox --> kmail --> > kmail mailbox in ~ > > You have kmail running 24/7, because it should transfer "local mailbox > --> kmail --> kmail mailbox in ~" > > If this is correct, then imap will not be your solution, because there > is no mailbox with mail in it, that a imap sever could deliver. > Reason: "kmail mailbox in ~" is not compatible with any imap server. > > > > The easy solution: > > Do not run kmail 24/7, but only when you want to use email on the > machine in front of you. Then you can use kmail over the ssh, no more > work needed. That would constipate dcop, eventually crashing this machine.> > > > The more complex solution: > > incomming mail: > external mailserver --> fetchmail --> local mailbox --> dovecot --> > local dovecot mailbox in ~ kmail has to be configured for imap only, > that has to be done for all kmails on all other machines that would > like access to the mails. Be aware that there was an error with kmail > and imap some time ago, I don't know if it still exists. > > Nik I see. But does that not also imply that I would have to write a script that would merge each "cur" directory's contents back into a file, say 10 at a time, write that file to the spool dir, wait for sieve or pidgeonhole to sort and process it for dovecots use? I can easily see that taking most of a day, while fetchmail is shut down so I could sort the files to make that merge, assuming I can get the sorter properly programmed in the first place. That sounds rather like the present configuration will need to be carried on till I am done. No clue when that will be. :( But it also begs the question as to why does dovecot not report this violation of its rules when I tell the server in /etc/dovecot/10-mail.conf that the mail its to serve resides at /home/gene/Mail/*/cur? And so that is the only place it looks, the additional stuff defining sent/junk etc has been commented out of /etc/dovecot/15-mailbox.conf? That, as has been said, doesn't compute. It won't launch other than as root, so it can make a logfile any place it wants, but it doesn't in the usual suspects path, /var/log/. Thanks Nic. 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>