On Wednesday 18 April 2007, Andy Green wrote: > Chris G wrote: > >>>> 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? > > > > Not unless you specifically copy mail to local folders, > > no. By default all you IMAP mail (in folders if you > > have created them) is kept on the server. > > The clients pull the list of mails that exist, and can > decide to cache mails that you have read, but should > leave everything on the IMAP server. > > >> 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. > > > > I suspect that kmail isn't a very clever IMAP client > > then. > > It does seem kmail is not as great as it could be. Kmail works just fine with IMAP. -- If the word following begins with a vowel, the word you want is... to read the rest of this, go here http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/a.html
