KMail + IMAP - help urgently sought
Timothy Murphy
tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
Tue May 22 15:29:15 UTC 2007
Matej Cepl wrote:
> On Tue, 22 May 2007 13:26:36 +0100, Timothy Murphy scripst:
>> I think the problem is that /var/spool/mail/* on the desktop has become
>> too large.
>>
>> Does one really have to keep email in mbox format in this directory if
>> running an IMAP server?
>
> Certainly not -- but that depends on the configuration of dovecot. Also
> purging of the account would help.
I don't know what you mean by "purging the account".
The wastebin is automatically emptied when I leave kmail.
Do you mean that there is a limit to the number of items
one can keep in one's inbox if using kmail + dovecot?
>> Is IMAP incompatible with maildir format?
>
> No.
Well, is dovecot IMAP compatible with kmail maildir format?
May I ask if you are actually running a dovecot server with kmail?
If so, where exactly does dovecot store email?
>> I used to share ~/Mail under NFS,
>> and that seemed to work reasonably well, but I was told by my betters
>> that I should use IMAP.
>
> They are right. The only change might be that kmail tends to have more
> mature dIMAP support than IMAP. And you want dIMAP anyway, in order to be
> able to work on your laptop even when disconnected from the network.
> Otherwise, dIMAP support in kmail (albeit on Debian) used to be very
> stable for me for many years with thousands of messages per account.
As far as I can see, dovecot does not offer dIMAP.
May I repeat my query:
1. Is anyone actually running kmail + dovecot (on a machine they control)
successfully?
2. If so, does the dovecot server keep email in a maildir format
that kmail will work with?
I realize there are other mail-readers apart from kmail,
and other IMAP servers apart from dovecot.
My question relates solely to kmail + dovecot.
Are they actually compatible?
--
Timothy Murphy
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