KMail + IMAP - help urgently sought

[Timothy Murphy]

Anne Wilson wrote:

>> I'm running dovecot on my desktop,
>> and running kmail + IMAP on my laptops,
>> specifying the desktop as IMAP server
>> (the idea being to keep email on the laptops in sync).
>>
>> This has always had problems with kmail hanging,
>> and now it has become completely unusable.
...
>> Does one really have to keep email in mbox format in this directory
>> if running an IMAP server?
>> Is IMAP incompatible with maildir format?

> Timothy, ignore all that's being said about dumping KMail - it works
> perfectly
> with dovecot imap.  I use it all the time.

Thanks very much for your help (and everyone else).

I now have my system running with kmail + dovecot using maildir format.

The setup is rather confused at present, 
eg I apparently have two inbox folders, Local Folders/inbox and IMAP/inbox,
whose contents differ slightly but which seem to converge after a time.
Also the folders on my desktop and laptop are different.

But the system seems to be working - the mail is coming through,
and kmail is no longer hanging (touch wood).

The changeover to the new format took a couple of hours.
One of the problems might have been that I did not allow for this,
and was trying to read mail during the transfer.

I now have
        mail_location = maildir:~/Mail/inbox
in /etc/dovecot.conf .
It didn't seem to like maildir:~/Mail
or maildir:~/Maildir even though I created a Maildir directory.

The old folders in ~/mail/ , which dovecot created in its mbox phase,
are still there in mbox format.
Hopefully I'll be able to import them to the new setup.









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