[kdepim-users] Configuring mailboxes

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Monday 04 February 2008, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Saturday 02 February 2008 11:23:18 Rosalind Mitchell wrote:
> > What I would like to do is: have all my mail picked up by Fetchmail
> > (as it is at the moment), and have Procmail deploy messages to mbox
> > files in my ~/Mail directory (as it is when I'm on one of my
> > steampunkish Mutt kicks). I would then like to be able to read my
> > mail using either Kmail or Mutt (depending on whim, or whether I
> > happen to be working in a text console, or whether I am accessing
> > mail on my machine from a remote location.)

KMail does not like other apps messing around with its mail storage, 
e.g. with respect to procmail read
http://docs.kde.org/kde3/en/kdepim/kmail/faq.html#faq-procmail


> I use fetchmail for several accounts, then pipe through procmail,
> which filters messages into various folders (I have bogofilter in
> there too, to sort out spam).  I then use dovecot as an imap server. 
> This has the advantage of serving up your mail to the server box
> itself, another workstation, a laptop, or even your laptop when you
> are away from home. Dovecot needs a little configuration, but the
> on-line wiki pages are very helpful, so it's not too hard.  As for
> mail client, I routinely use kmail, have from time to time used
> thunderbird, and believe that there is no reason why you would not
> also be able to use mutt.

I fully agree with Anne that setting up a local IMAP server is the way 
to go. 


Regards,
Ingo
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