[Dovecot] Migration woes from tpop mbox to dovecot maildir

[Timothy Murphy]

On Friday 14 September 2007 19:13:02 Charles Marcus wrote:

> > Should I actually have an IMAP (or rather IMAPS) Account on kmail on
> > the server? [The kmail documentation on this point is not clear, at
> > least to me.]
> >
> > I can see my email with kmail on my server OK, but do not see it on
> > my laptop, with an IMAPS account specified.
>
> If I'm not mistaken, KMail can read maildirs directly (no IMAP server
> required).
>
> So, to read these emails from an IMAP client that cannot read maildirs
> directly, you would need an IMAP server.
>
> There may be issues with accessing your maildirs directly from KMail
> *and* an IMAP server at the same time, so you may want to set up KMail
> to use the IMAP server too if you do this.

Thanks for your response.
However, I don't really understand your point.
I am running dovecot IMAPS on my server.
However, I do not have a kmail IMAPS account on the server.
My question was: am I supposed to have one?

[My email on the server is in maildir format,
and I see it perfectly well - on the server - with kmail.]

I am not running dovecot on my laptop,
but I do have a kmail IMAPS account on the laptop,
pointing to my server.
Unfortunately, I do not see the email on my server
from my laptop.
That is my problem.

I was wondering if there is some way to instruct dovecot
to re-create its index files?
Can one just delete them - will they be re-created?



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