Re: kmail has no wings, doesnt fly.

On Mon, 6 Dec, 2021 at 1:11 PM, Ingo Klöcker <[email protected]> wrote:
 

To: [email protected]
On Montag, 6. Dezember 2021 18:55:45 CET Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings all;
> I'm on bullseye, brand new install. kmail starts, and has imported my older
> stretch Mail mailbox.  And it can read those old msgs.
> 
> But that is all I have been able to make it do. Under settings-<add account,
> clicking on add account does not do ANYTHING, no response. Ditto for check
> mail, zero reponse. So obviously I am missing something it needs which does
> not seem to be listed even in synaptics reccomends list.

Try to add an account without the Account Wizard (Settings->Add account) via 
Settings->Configure KMail...->Accounts->Receiving->Add...->Custom Account

> My stretch setup used fetchmail to pull from my ISP's imap account which is
> dovecot. fetchmail hands the MTA job off the procmail which runs it past
> clamav, and then spamassassin and what survives get put in $HOMEDIR, which
> historically has been /var/mail/me. A script I named mailwatcher launches
> inotifywait to watch that directory, and when a file is closed, exits
> returning the filename, it immediately restarts inotifywait again, then
> checks the filename for 3 options and if any match. its sends kmail a dbus
> msg to go get that mail, which runs it thru a folder section and stashes it
> in the chosen folder.

Now that's a pretty complex setup. I suggest to add a local dovecot to the mix 
pointing it at the /var/mail/me and pointing KMail via an IMAP account at the 
local dovecot.



gene>How do I do that?


I'm using such a local dovecot for accessing mail fetched with fetchmail for 
one account. For most IMAP accounts I use IMAP directly with the remote mail 
servers.


gene>I would like to do that, long enough to figure out how it works, but again
I have been unable to make a connection using config>kmail>receive account.
 Just clicking apply freezes it up in that condition until the os process killer 

kills kmail.


gene>If there is a problem why does it not report it? Or is it creating a log I can't 

read?



gene>I have dovecot installed but there seems not to be man pages for either. 

Trying to run it, gets nothing in a root htop display. If there docs addressing 

this, where they?



Regards,
Ingo


Cheers, Gene