Curious kmail question

[Mike Burger]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I've been wondering how to sync kmail on my desktop and laptop(s),
> and decided in the end to use nfs,
> exporting my ~/Mail/ directory on the desktop
> to the laptops.
>
> This works fine, except that kmail is unable to get new mail
> from /var/spool/mail/ as it did on the desktop.
> [All my email, from various sources, arrives there.]
>
> I guess I could export this as well -
> but is there any other (simple) solution?
Yup.  Use IMAP instead of NFS.