From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D091615800A for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2023 14:19:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7772BE0CB9; Mon, 31 Jul 2023 14:19:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.hosts.co.uk (smtp.hosts.co.uk [85.233.160.19]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3115DE0C9E for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2023 14:19:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from host81-132-12-205.range81-132.btcentralplus.com ([81.132.12.205] helo=[192.168.1.99]) by smtp.hosts.co.uk with esmtpa (Exim) (envelope-from ) id 1qQTk3-0007JT-F6 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2023 15:19:23 +0100 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2023 15:19:22 +0100 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.13.0 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Email clients To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <2313990.ElGaqSPkdT@wstn> <20230731001110.62ab44eb@digimed.co.uk> <12261703.O9o76ZdvQC@wstn> Content-Language: en-GB From: Wols Lists In-Reply-To: <12261703.O9o76ZdvQC@wstn> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a6df4ac4-85b3-4d6e-b1e6-9e2e9d7863a2 X-Archives-Hash: 32d7504ccaf937d97b82d96f2dd8930d 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