On Friday 04 December 2015 02:50:02 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:

> 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

That would imply, I believe, that I have the /sshnet/machine network 
using sshfs set up to function both ways. Presently I do not but have 
been trying to figure out a way to do that.

Refresh me on how I can make that work from the individual machines.

Currently its only from this machine /to/ the other 3. EG, I have a dir 
called /sshnet here, that when the whole net is up and connected, looks 
like this:
gene@coyote:/etc/dovecot/conf.d$ ls -l /sshnet
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Nov 10 13:37 GO704
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Sep 24 11:30 lathe
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Sep 24 11:44 shop
gene@coyote:/etc/dovecot/conf.d$ 

And as me, gene, I can do anything to those machines that gene has perms 
to do.  But its not mirrored at those machines, something I would like 
to do.

Thanks Nic.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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