Running a dovecot IMAPS server

[Martin Marques]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> As far as I can see, KMail's maildir format
> (with folders ~/Mail/inbox/cur , etc)
> is incompatible with Dovecot's IMAP format
> (with folders ~/Mail/.inbox/cur).
> 
> I mean that if one runs an IMAP server
> then the directories must be in Dovecot's format,
> in which case they cannot be accessed by kmail running on the server
> with a standard Local Account.

Yes kmail does that, and worst.

> If that is indeed the case,
> it seems surprising that kmail documentation
> seems to contain no warning of this.
> 
> On the other hand, if I am wrong, I would be very grateful
> if someone could explain how to combine kmail + dovecot IMAP.

Use kmail with an imap account to localhost.

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