[Dovecot] KMail + dovecot

[Timothy Murphy]

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.



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