Re: KMail + IMAP - help urgently sought

On Tuesday 22 May 2007, Timothy Murphy wrote:
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?

Absolutely not.


May I ask if you are actually running a dovecot server with kmail?
If so, where exactly does dovecot store email?

Where you tell it to, in the config file.

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?

Yes

2. If so, does the dovecot server keep email in a maildir format
that kmail will work with?

Yes


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?

Not in the least.

If your mail is currently in mbox format you may have to pull in all those
mails that you currently hold in order to convert it to maildir, and that
could be a pain if you have too many. We'll go into options for handling
that when you're ready for it.

Meanwhile, how is your mail being collected? I use fetchmail, filter with
procmail, and read in kmail, where, incidentally, you can easily create and
delete folders on the imap server.

Dimap is a different question. It's used if you want all your mail to be
copied onto your local disk. If you only want certain mail to be on the
local drive, consider a kmail filter to copy the directory in question, or
manually copy if you only want a few individual ones.

Anne

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