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 -- "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>