KMail + IMAP - help urgently sought

[Andy Green]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 May 2007, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> That sounds as though you set KMail to use dimap.  I've never used it, but I 
> presume that mail from your imap inbox is copied across from time to time.
> 
>> Also the folders on my desktop and laptop are different.
> 
> They shouldn't be, except for local folders.

Heigh ho is it possible Timothy is using the IMAP server's store dir as
his "Local folders", so he sees everything twice, once via IMAP in
IMAP/inbox and once via directly looking at the IMAP store files as
"Local folders"?

-Andy