Tim Bates wrote: > Timothy Murphy wrote: >> 1. I see my email fine on my laptop in an IMAPS account, >> but it doesn't get updated - I mean I don't get any new email - >> until I run kmail on my server. >> > Is that because kmail is downloading it from your ISP/email host using > POP3? > What I assume you are trying to do is host your emails but not run your > own SMTP server, correct? For the purposes of having access to the same > email collection from multiple PCs (without needing to keep them on the > ISP server). > > TB
kmail will download your emails and put them into the mail directory - and then they become visible to you via dovecot. Dovecot will not download emails itself automatically but something else needs to do this. You could either run fetchmail as a demon or run from a cronjob getmail to collect regularly all your mail. I went with getmail as it seems to be a lot simpler and more stable, others might have a different opinion. Peter
