Re: Can't retrieve IMAP mails with KMail

On Wednesday, 19 December 2018 16:17:22 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> I decided to have another go at setting KMail up to work with my local IMAP
> server, which is dovecot on top of postfix and fetchmail.
> 
> After much wrestling with the three ways of creating an IMAP account,
> including numerous errors "Inappropriate ioctl for device" (which I should
> not be seeing at the user level), I finally have an unsecured server
> connection. However, when I attempt to fetch mail from that server, KMail
> doesn't show any result.
[...]
> So traffic is flowing, but I don't get any mails, even though the mbox has
> 80K bytes of them.

Never mind. It looks as though I have a problem in dovecot, which I'm trying 
to debug in spite of it not obeying the config value that says to log 
everything.

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Regards,
Peter.