Mike Burger wrote: > Timothy Murphy wrote: >> I've been wondering how to sync kmail on my desktop and laptop(s), >> and decided in the end to use nfs, >> exporting my ~/Mail/ directory on the desktop >> to the laptops. >> >> This works fine, except that kmail is unable to get new mail >> from /var/spool/mail/ as it did on the desktop. >> [All my email, from various sources, arrives there.] >> >> I guess I could export this as well - >> but is there any other (simple) solution? > Yup. Use IMAP instead of NFS. Doesn't IMAP download the email to the local machine? I am trying dovecot on the server and kmail on the laptop with an IMAP account. Maybe I have set it up wrongly, but as I said the email is downloaded to the laptop, so if I use another laptop I cannot see this email. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
