KMail from many platforms

[Derek Broughton]

Sylviane et Perry White wrote:

> On Monday 17 December 2007 23:01, Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Sylviane et Perry White wrote:
>> > On Monday 17 December 2007 15:59, Derek Broughton wrote:
>> >> Sylviane et Perry White wrote:
> (snip)
>> >, I won't be able to run Ubuntu's dovecot from the
>> > Suse side (of the same machine)...Or is there a way?
>>
>> Sure.  Using this system, it's probably best to have all mail delivered
>> to /var/mail/$USER/ (as I said, default of most if not all MTAs), and
>> have
>> the same /var/mail/ mounted on both the Ubuntu & Suse.  Then you either
>> modify the dovecot config file to expect to find the Inbox there, or you
>> just symlink everybody's ~/Maildir to /var/mail/$USER.
> That tip will surely be helpful but is no answer to my question, I found
> out how to allow executables directly from a CD (if I can remember) but
> have yet to find out how to allow this for a hard drive. (Tried running
> the kate on ubuntu from suse and had permission denied, even as root)

I see.  I'd just have installed Dovecot on both Ubuntu & SuSE.

> I still have a feeling I'm missing an important info, unless it happends
> automagically I have no idea where to direct KMail so it finds dovecot.

I keep telling you the answer to that one - create an "Account".  It asks
whether it is POP, IMAP or Maildir (and maybe other options too).  Select
IMAP.
-- 
derek