Re: [gentoo-user] Email clients

[Wols Lists <antlists@youngman.org.uk>]

On 31/07/2023 13:33, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Monday, 31 July 2023 08:34:05 BST Wols Lists wrote:
>> On 31/07/2023 00:11, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>>> On Sun, 30 Jul 2023 23:53:39 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>>>>> ... I use Claws 99% of the time, but occasionally run Thunderbird.
>>>>> Neither program cares that I have also used the other to read my
>>>>> mail.
>>>>
>>>> Ah, but you're using IMAP4 and leaving your emails on the server. I
>>>> don't want to do that.
>>>
>>> But you're running the IMAP server locally, so what difference does it
>>> make?
> 
> It's just the way things have 'just growed'. I could start again with the
> server keeping the mails itself, but it's a good deal of work.
> 
>> My server IS my workstation. And if *you* don't want to leave your mail
>> "centrally", why are you running a dovecot server?
> 
> Because KMail is horribly buggy with POP3 and my ISP doesn't offer IMAP4.
> 
I'm trying to get my head round your setup then.

My setup is simple. I couldn't get postfix/fetchmail to behave, so my 
workstation/server runs dovecot.

Thunderbird (on my server) has an account pointing at my ISP, that 
retrieves all my mail and moves it into dovecot. Am I right you've got 
postfix/fetchmail working correctly? All you need to do is make it chuck 
it into dovecot on your server (or not even that).

But the point is, if you have a working instance of dovecot, and you are 
using kmail/imap4 to read your emails FROM DOVECOT, just point claws at 
dovecot as well.

Or are you using kmail/pop3 to pull your emails from dovecot into your 
local kmail instance?

The big question that needs answering is "Are you storing your emails in 
dovecot, or in kmail?"

Cheers,
Wol