kmail has no wings, doesnt fly.

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Montag, 6. Dezember 2021 18:55:45 CET Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings all;
> I'm on bullseye, brand new install. kmail starts, and has imported my older
> stretch Mail mailbox.  And it can read those old msgs.
> 
> But that is all I have been able to make it do. Under settings-<add account,
> clicking on add account does not do ANYTHING, no response. Ditto for check
> mail, zero reponse. So obviously I am missing something it needs which does
> not seem to be listed even in synaptics reccomends list.

Try to add an account without the Account Wizard (Settings->Add account) via 
Settings->Configure KMail...->Accounts->Receiving->Add...->Custom Account

> My stretch setup used fetchmail to pull from my ISP's imap account which is
> dovecot. fetchmail hands the MTA job off the procmail which runs it past
> clamav, and then spamassassin and what survives get put in $HOMEDIR, which
> historically has been /var/mail/me. A script I named mailwatcher launches
> inotifywait to watch that directory, and when a file is closed, exits
> returning the filename, it immediately restarts inotifywait again, then
> checks the filename for 3 options and if any match. its sends kmail a dbus
> msg to go get that mail, which runs it thru a folder section and stashes it
> in the chosen folder.

Now that's a pretty complex setup. I suggest to add a local dovecot to the mix 
pointing it at the /var/mail/me and pointing KMail via an IMAP account at the 
local dovecot.

I'm using such a local dovecot for accessing mail fetched with fetchmail for 
one account. For most IMAP accounts I use IMAP directly with the remote mail 
servers.

Regards,
Ingo
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