Is anyone running docecot on a home LAN. to give an IMAP feed to other machines on the LAN? I am running dovecot on my desktop, alfred. I want to collect email on my laptop, william, using KMail. As far as I can tell, dovecot is running perfectly. I can bring email from /var/spool/mail/tim on alfred to the same directory on william by running "fetchmail alfred" on william. I can then read it with KMail on william, so there is not real problem. However, KMail does not seem to be able to collect email directly from alfred, even though I have added an entry in KMail=>Settings=>Configure KMail=>Network=>Receiving giving type imap, Name (dovecot), Login, Password, Host (alfred), Port (143). and Prefix to Folders "/var/spool/mail". I don't see any error message anywhere, but when I click on File=>Check mail in dovecot it says "Checking account dovecot for new mail". but nothing appears to happen. Any suggestions or advice gratefully received. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
Timothy Murphy wrote:> Is anyone running docecot on a home LAN. > to give an IMAP feed to other machines on the LAN? >Why yes, yes I am! As well as at work, for about 25 people.> I am running dovecot on my desktop, alfred. > I want to collect email on my laptop, william, using KMail. >This sounds awfully familiar :)> > I don't see any error message anywhere, > but when I click on File=>Check mail in dovecot > it says "Checking account dovecot for new mail". > but nothing appears to happen. > > Any suggestions or advice gratefully received. >I was using KMail with Dovecot for some time without problems. I believe I suggested last time you check if KMail is subscribed to all the folders (even if it's only INBOX) on the IMAP server. -- Curtis Maloney
Timothy Murphy wrote: ...snip...> However, KMail does not seem to be able to collect email > directly from alfred, > even though I have added an entry in > KMail=>Settings=>Configure KMail=>Network=>Receiving > giving type imap, Name (dovecot), Login, Password, Host (alfred), Port (143). > and Prefix to Folders "/var/spool/mail". >I'm not familiar with KMail, but if "Prefix to Folders" is a reference to the folders on the IMAP server, you'll probably want to leave this blank. you're running KMail on 'alfred' as well? it's not moving the mail from the /var/spool/mail/<user> file to somewhere else when you read it, is it? that could also cause it to not appear on william during a check. HTH alan