KMail from many platforms

[Sylviane et Perry White]

On Monday 17 December 2007 15:59, Derek Broughton wrote:
> > Suse), would you recommend Exim?
>
> No.  If you're fetching your mail via fetchmail, you only need an MDA
> (maildrop or procmail).
Only used KMail
> If you need a minimal MTA, I like masqmail.  If 
> you need a full-featured MTA, I think postfix is simpler to set up than
> Exim (I haven't used either in a long time, though).  
I installed postfix and created an IMAP account in KMail.
KMail first connected to localhost but the IMAP folder never got new mail 
(although I could copy some there from within KMail )

I played for days with the postfix and dovecot config files and 
ownership/authorisations of my folders and as a result I messed up things 
that functionned previously. Now KMail tells me it cannot connect to 
localhost.
The command:    telnet localhost 143 says connection refused but
Sendmail will have a message delivered in ~/Maildir/new/   (from config)
and also in /usr/lib/dovecot/Maildir/new/  (wonder why)

Needless to say googling was of no help.
No log file in /var/log tell me anything , are there other locations for 
logfiles?


Any tips?

Happy new year          Perry





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