[Dovecot] Running a dovecot IMAPS server

[Charles Marcus]

On 9/20/2007, Timothy Murphy (tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie) wrote:
> Incidentally, as far as I can see one has to keep a Local account
> on kmail, as well as an IMAP account,

Dunno why it would be necessary. TBird doesn't have an easy way to lose 
the 'Local Folders' - maybe kmail has something similar that you are 
referring to? I just keep those collapsed and ignore them.

> since eg sent mail goes to ~/Maildir/sent-mail/cur/ .
> I didn't find any kmail setting to change this.

???

'Special' folders are definable by the client - in TBird, I always use 
'Sent', 'Drafts', 'Templates' and 'Trash' (these are the defaults too).

> Also, I assume it is sensible to leave the trash folder on the local
> machine.

Sensible? No... but it is a personal preference...

I keep the Trash expiration (a TBird setting, not a server-side setting) 
separate from the defaults, set to delete messages older than 30 days - 
and I like having the trash on the IMAP server, but that is a personal 
preference.

I still think you are missing something about how IMAP works...

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Best regards,

Charles