On Friday 14 September 2007 19:13:02 Charles Marcus wrote: > > Should I actually have an IMAP (or rather IMAPS) Account on kmail on > > the server? [The kmail documentation on this point is not clear, at > > least to me.] > > > > I can see my email with kmail on my server OK, but do not see it on > > my laptop, with an IMAPS account specified. > > If I'm not mistaken, KMail can read maildirs directly (no IMAP server > required). > > So, to read these emails from an IMAP client that cannot read maildirs > directly, you would need an IMAP server. > > There may be issues with accessing your maildirs directly from KMail > *and* an IMAP server at the same time, so you may want to set up KMail > to use the IMAP server too if you do this.
Thanks for your response. However, I don't really understand your point. I am running dovecot IMAPS on my server. However, I do not have a kmail IMAPS account on the server. My question was: am I supposed to have one? [My email on the server is in maildir format, and I see it perfectly well - on the server - with kmail.] I am not running dovecot on my laptop, but I do have a kmail IMAPS account on the laptop, pointing to my server. Unfortunately, I do not see the email on my server from my laptop. That is my problem. I was wondering if there is some way to instruct dovecot to re-create its index files? Can one just delete them - will they be re-created? -- 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
