Re: configuring imap in kmail

On Monday 23 March 2009 16:20:47 Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Monday 23 March 2009 15:48:21 eddie wrote:
> > Hi
> > I've just joined the list born out of the frustration of trying to
> > configure imap in kmail.
> > My mail directory is called "mail" and lives in my home area. I've
> > changed the namedspace entry to "~/mail". However, new folders seem to
> > get created on my home area and not in the subdirectory mail. Does anyone
> > know how to make kmail behave properly or is this normal behaviour for
> > kmail?  How do I confine the activities of kmail to the ~/mail area?  I
> > would be very grateful if someone could give me some pointer as I find
> > this all very frustrating and somehow I must be overlooking something
> > somewhere in the documentation.
>
> Have you installed an IMAP server?  If not, I'd suggest that you install
> dovecot.  They have good documentation on the project web pages, so setting
> it up is fairly straightforward.  You then tell dovecot that ~/mail is
> where your messages are.
>
> How are you actually getting your mail?  Is kmail pulling down from a pop3
> server?

Thanks for the speedy response.
I am connecting to an imap server (http://www.washington.edu/imap/)  running 
on opensuse 10.3 (x86-64). On my workstation I have KMail 1.9.10 (using KDE 
3.5.10 "release 21.11") on opensuse 11.1 (x86-64).

Eddie