dovecot, kmail & thunderbird

[Jamon Camisso]

Art Alexion wrote:
> Feeling kinda stupid here.  This is supposedly easy to use stuff.
> 
> Goal:
> 
>     To share mailboxes with kmail & Thunderbird.
> 
> Plan:
> 
>     To set up a local IMAP server using dovecot which fetches mail from
>     3 POP servers, and access the IMAP folders with either kmail or
>     Thunderbird.
> 
> Problem:
> 
>     I can't figure out how to configure dovecot or kmail and
>     Thunderbird.  All of my Google searches seem to skip over the
>     nitty-gritty details.
> 
>     Part of my problem is possibly the terminology.

Do you have fetchmail or something configured to get your mail into the spool? 
I'm not exactly sure how it works, but I think that you need it to grab the 
messages from your POP servers and put them into your user mbox/maildir.