[kdepim-users] Kmail and Maildir & Local Folder

Ingo Klöcker kloecker at kde.org
Fri Oct 30 20:26:14 GMT 2009


On Wednesday 28 October 2009, Christian Mikovits wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Marc Deop i Argemí
> <damnshock at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 27 October 2009 20:58:08 Christian Mikovits wrote:
> >> My mails lies on an imap server somewhere in the inet.
> >>    - I use a webmail client read mails
> >>    - I use offlineimap to sync the imap server with a local
> >> directory (~/.Maildir)
> >>    - I use mutt to read the mails in this local directory
> >>    - I want to use kmail to read the mails using the same
> >> directory
> >
> > I've used this exact configuration before but the webmail client
> > part ;)
> >
> > The only thing I had to do is a symbolic link pointing to the
> > maildir directory and everything worked.
>
> I see. But did Kmail recognize if there was a new mail in one of the
> Folders, thats my problem at the moment.

No. KMail won't recognize this. Your best option is to use the approach 
outlined by Anne, i.e. run a local IMAP server and access ~/.Maildir 
from KMail via this local IMAP server.


Regards,
Ingo
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