KMail + IMAP - help urgently sought

[Matej Cepl]

On Tue, 22 May 2007 13:26:36 +0100, Timothy Murphy scripst:
> I think the problem is that /var/spool/mail/* on the desktop has become
> too large.
> 
> Does one really have to keep email in mbox format in this directory if
> running an IMAP server?

Certainly not -- but that depends on the configuration of dovecot. Also 
purging of the account would help.

> Is IMAP incompatible with maildir format?

No.

> I used to share ~/Mail under NFS,
> and that seemed to work reasonably well, but I was told by my betters
> that I should use IMAP.

They are right. The only change might be that kmail tends to have more 
mature dIMAP support than IMAP. And you want dIMAP anyway, in order to be 
able to work on your laptop even when disconnected from the network. 
Otherwise, dIMAP support in kmail (albeit on Debian) used to be very 
stable for me for many years with thousands of messages per account.

Matej