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. Thats quite a few gigabytes, and a duplication operation. > 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. Here, fetchmail hands off to procmail which delivers that which survives the spamassassin an clam inspections, and delivers it delivers to 1 of 3 /var/spool/mail/mailfiles. Me, a niece, and virii. inotifywait sees the file closing, and if its me or the niece, sends kmail over the message buss flavor of the week, a get the mail message. kmail goes and gets it, sorting it to the correct folder, so the incoming mail lands in foldername/cur. And there are about 40 some foldernames. One copy of the email corpus should be sufficient. Can dovecot be trained to go look in ~/Mail/*/cur? > 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. Its the really wrong that bothers me. > I hope this helps > Perhaps. I'll install it and the docs and do some reading. Does dovecot do a broadcast so that clients can find it, or is a complex kmail setup required at the client side? 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>