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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