--On 07 December 2004 20:58 +0000 Timothy Murphy tim@birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie wrote: | | What slightly puzzles me is that dozens of people must be using dovecot | for more or less the purpose I envisage - | otherwise what are they using it for - | so my little problem must have arisen many times before.
I use Dovecot on a small home LAN with no problems. However, the server runs the SME-Server distro (www.contribs.org), which comes with Dovecot pre-configured, so I've never had to set it up from scratch.
Also, I've never tried using fetchmail on a client (although the server uses it in the way you use uucp), I use conventional IMAP clients - generally Mulberry and sometimes OE. This all runs like clockwork.
Your fetchmail errors look to me like a fetchmail config issue (e.g. why would fetchmail want an SMTP connection to localhost?), though not being a fetchmail expert I'm not sure what it's indicating.
Have you tried any other IMAP clients? Again, I don't know KMail, but getting an IMAP client to make its first connection to a server is sometimes a black art, as it has to discover what mailboxes the server offers, etc. You could try Mulberry, you can download a free trial from www.mulberrymail.com - there are builds for RH5 & RH6, and people report success on Fedora.
-- HTH Rick Jones