Re: kmail problem




On Sunday 21 October 2007 09:38:35 pm Gene Heskett wrote:
Greetings;

Trying to get a duplicate of this mail system I have on this FC6 machine
working on my F7 lappy, but I've run into a kmail config problem I can't
find the answer to.

Here, I have procmail delivering to /var/spool/mail/gene, which is a
_mailfile_.

Apparently the newer kmail seems bent on working only with MailDirs.

I stopped doing this a while back so my recommendation is a little
different than what you expect but it may solve your troubles anyway.

I like to be able to change mail clients and not worry about any format
issues - the best way i know to do that is to never have local mail files.
And its very simple to do.

I run a local imap server - simply edit /etc/dovecot.conf and service
start dovecot ; chkconfig dovecot on. dovecot can happily see older unix
style mailfiles - although I changed my delivery to maildir as well - has a
lot of advantages esp if your mail folder gets large.

Then point your mail client at the imap server on 127.0.0.1.

I find it best to keep all my mail on the imap server - inlcuding sent
mail etc - if you have local files - you can simply drag and drop the local
ones to the imap server after creating the folder structure you need.

Now if you ever want/need to use thuderbird - or evo and whatever other
mail client .. you can - and go back to kmail at will.

good luck.

g/

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