On Fri 07 Sep 2007, Tim Bates wrote:
- 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).
On my server, I collect email from various places by fetchmail and uucp. In both cases, I think, the email's final destination is determined by my .procmailrc, which sends all email to ~/Mail/inbox . As far as I can see, dovecot only "indexes" this email on the server when I run kmail on the server. Running kmail on my laptop does not seem to "wake up" dovecot.
I assume the problem lies on the server. Should I run some cron job to ensure that dovecot keeps its indexes up-to-date? Or is there some setting in /etc/dovecot.conf which I have overlooked?
As always, any suggestions or advice gratefully received.