Tim Bates wrote:
Timothy Murphy 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).
TB
kmail will download your emails and put them into the mail directory - and then they become visible to you via dovecot. Dovecot will not download emails itself automatically but something else needs to do this.
You could either run fetchmail as a demon or run from a cronjob getmail to collect regularly all your mail.
I went with getmail as it seems to be a lot simpler and more stable, others might have a different opinion.
Peter