[Dovecot] Two newbie problems

[peter]

Tim Bates wrote:
> Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> 1.  I see my email fine on my laptop in an IMAPS account,
>> but it doesn't get updated - I mean I don't get any new email -
>> until I run kmail on my server.
>>   
> Is that because kmail is downloading it from your ISP/email host using
> POP3?
> What I assume you are trying to do is host your emails but not run your
> own SMTP server, correct? For the purposes of having access to the same
> email collection from multiple PCs (without needing to keep them on the
> ISP server).
> 
> TB


kmail will download your emails and put them into the mail directory -
and then they become visible to you via dovecot. Dovecot will not
download emails itself automatically but something else needs to do this.

You could either run fetchmail as a demon or run from a cronjob getmail
to collect regularly all your mail.

I went with getmail as it seems to be a lot simpler and more stable,
others might have a different opinion.

Peter