Tim wrote: >> Suppose you have a standard maildir setup on computer X, >> with directories ~/Maildir/inbox/[cur,new,tmp]/ , >> ~/Maildir/family/[cur,new,tmp]/ , etc. >> >> Suppose now you start dovecot IMAP on computer X. >> Then you will not be able to see the family folder on computer Y, >> running as an IMAP client, ie with an IMAP kmail account >> pointing to computer X. > > Those maildirs on X, were they set up through the IMAP server, using a > mail client on Y, or through a mail client running on that X computer? I thought I made this clear, but in any case the mail directories on machine X were set up using kmail with a Local account, specifying that I was using maildir format, and creating folders "family", etc, with the kmail GUI. > Ordinarily, a mail server is something that's remote, and you create > things in it through a remote client. Mail folders, and the like, are > created as part of the mail server operation, not through direct file > system manipulation by the client. My question was about setting up a mail-server on machine X where there were already mail folders in place, set up as described above. > If you're running a server and a client on the same box, you really want > to configure one to use a different location than the other. You'll > find various mail programs not only differ in how they use some storage > techniques, they may also add their own custom things into some > locations. When you say they should use different locations, do you mean that the two sets of email messages are completely disjoint? I can't imagine why anyone would want to do that. Maybe I misunderstood what you meant? > Yes, you *can* run a server and client on the same box, using the same > files. But you'd have to pick software that does it in ways compatible > with each other. That was exactly my question: Are dovecot and kmail compatible in this sense? > e.g. I use Evolution and Dovecot on one box. Evolution's own copies of > mail are within its own directories. Dovecot is using the usual mail > folder location. So can you transfer email from one to the other? Can you read evolution's email with an IMAP client? Or can you read dovecot's email with evolution?
