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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Timothy Murphy
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