Matej Cepl wrote: > On Tue, 22 May 2007 13:26:36 +0100, Timothy Murphy scripst: >> I think the problem is that /var/spool/mail/* on the desktop has become >> too large. >> >> Does one really have to keep email in mbox format in this directory if >> running an IMAP server? > > Certainly not -- but that depends on the configuration of dovecot. Also > purging of the account would help. I don't know what you mean by "purging the account". The wastebin is automatically emptied when I leave kmail. Do you mean that there is a limit to the number of items one can keep in one's inbox if using kmail + dovecot? >> Is IMAP incompatible with maildir format? > > No. Well, is dovecot IMAP compatible with kmail maildir format? May I ask if you are actually running a dovecot server with kmail? If so, where exactly does dovecot store email? >> I used to share ~/Mail under NFS, >> and that seemed to work reasonably well, but I was told by my betters >> that I should use IMAP. > > They are right. The only change might be that kmail tends to have more > mature dIMAP support than IMAP. And you want dIMAP anyway, in order to be > able to work on your laptop even when disconnected from the network. > Otherwise, dIMAP support in kmail (albeit on Debian) used to be very > stable for me for many years with thousands of messages per account. As far as I can see, dovecot does not offer dIMAP. May I repeat my query: 1. Is anyone actually running kmail + dovecot (on a machine they control) successfully? 2. If so, does the dovecot server keep email in a maildir format that kmail will work with? I realize there are other mail-readers apart from kmail, and other IMAP servers apart from dovecot. My question relates solely to kmail + dovecot. Are they actually compatible? -- 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
