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 -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA.