On Fri 07 Sep 2007, Tim Bates 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).
On my server, I collect email from various places by fetchmail and uucp. In both cases, I think, the email's final destination is determined by my .procmailrc, which sends all email to ~/Mail/inbox . As far as I can see, dovecot only "indexes" this email on the server when I run kmail on the server. Running kmail on my laptop does not seem to "wake up" dovecot. I assume the problem lies on the server. Should I run some cron job to ensure that dovecot keeps its indexes up-to-date? Or is there some setting in /etc/dovecot.conf which I have overlooked? As always, any suggestions or advice gratefully received.
