On Monday 23 Jan 2006 19:06, jdow wrote: > > It may be as simple as telling kmail to get NEW mail from the spool > directory, /var/spool/mail/xxx. Or it may involve telling Dovecot > to use the spool directories for incoming and the user home directory > "mail" directory for storing the mail folders for imap. That chunk > of documentation is not particularly trying. I managed to solve it. > I think it involved a one liner: > MAIL=/home/xxx/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/xxx > Problems there. With that line in Dovecot doesn't start - error: expecting "=" I tried putting spaces around the '=' and now it says 'Unknown setting: MAIL' I'll comment it out until I/we can work out the adjustment. Anne