KMail from many platforms

[Derek Broughton]

Sylviane et Perry White wrote:

> 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 )

Almost certainly because postfix is dropping mail in /var/mail/$USER/ or
dovecot is looking for it in ~/Maildir/

> 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.

dovecot's not running.

> The command:    telnet localhost 143 says connection refused but

derek at bella:~$ ps aux | grep dove
root      5562  0.0  0.0   2048   660 ? Ss   10:50   0:00 /usr/sbin/dovecot
root      5568  0.0  0.2   8924  2220 ? S    10:50   0:00 dovecot-auth

and a bunch of imap-login processes owned by dovecot.

> Sendmail will have a message delivered in ~/Maildir/new/   (from config)
> and also in /usr/lib/dovecot/Maildir/new/  (wonder why)

/usr/lib/dovecot would be the home directory of "dovecot" - implying mail is
being sent to you and to dovecot.

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

Everything shows in /var/log/mail.log for me.
-- 
derek