Kristian Koehntopp wrote:
I am using exim via dovecot_deliver to store messages in Maildir in my $HOME. I am using kmail to retrieve stuff. Unfortunately, something in my data crashes dovecot.
I was using 1.0.rc14 from opensuse, but downloaded and installed 1.0.8 from the site.
Kmail doesn't use a proper version of Maildir internally, it also assumes that it's the only program accessing the files and so play fast and loose. Not only this but it also has its own index files and gets extremely confused if things change underneath it. It's really a nasty client underneath the skin.
I would suggest that you deliver your e-mail elsewhere and have kmail access the folders via IMAP, even though it's not very nice to do so. (Kmail will overload the IMAP server if you're not careful.)
I can tell you this from experience as I used Kmail for a number of years in a production environment until quite recently.
Steve
Computer Systems Administrator, E-Mail:-steve@earth.ox.ac.uk Department of Earth Sciences, Tel:- +44 (0)1865 282110 University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, UK. Fax:- +44 (0)1865 272072