Serious problem with KMail

[Peter Humphrey]

On Friday, 14 September 2018 22:10:37 BST Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Freitag, 14. September 2018 18:05:24 CEST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > On Thursday, 13 September 2018 17:56:45 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > 
> > --->8
> > 
> > > No matter how I set up the IMAP source, KMail seems to make no attempt
> > > to
> > > communicate with the server. I haven't brought out the tin-snips yet to
> > > analyse the IP traffic, but I've tried everything else I can think of.
> > 
> > --->8
> 
> Please answer Andreas Mair's question. Do you use a proxy resp. do you have
> a proxy configured? If yes, do you need to access the IMAP server via the
> proxy or is the IMAP server in the internal network?

I did answer yesterday. In summary: no, no proxy.

> > Now I have a 1.2MB mail file on the local IMAP server. It contains 50-odd
> > e- mails which I'd like to import into KMail. I see a facility to import
> > plain text emails into KMail, and I've copied the file onto this machine,
> > but KMail complains that it can't find any messages.
> 
> I don't know what "plain text emails" are supposed to be, ...

I just meant that the e-mails delivered by postfix are all concatenated into a 
single text file.

> ... but if you have multiple mails in a single file then that's probably an
> mbox file. KMail can also import those.

Ah, I see. I'll try that then. Thanks.

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