[ILUG] Sync-ing kmail on desktop and laptop

[Timothy Murphy]

On Mon 16 Apr 2007, Pedro Jurado wrote:

> With respect the first mail, are you downloading the mails with
> fetchmail and then load in kmail with a local account?. In that case,
> before to try to synchronize, you can run this command in the laptop
>
> $> dcop kmail KMailIface checkAccount your_local_account_name
>
> and kmail will check the mail automagically

This sounded a nice idea, although I didn't really understand it.
But in fact when I ran it on my laptop (as myself and root) I got
	[tim at martha ~]$ dcop kmail KMailIface checkAccount tim
	object not accessible
	[tim at martha ~]$ sudo !!
	sudo dcop kmail KMailIface checkAccount tim
	object not accessible
while when I ran it on the desktop I got[
	tim at alfred ~]$ dcop kmail KMailIface checkAccount tim
	ERROR: Couldn't attach to DCOP server!
	[tim at alfred ~]$ su
	Password:
	[root at alfred tim]# dcop kmail KMailIface checkAccount tim
	ERROR: Couldn't attach to DCOP server!
(I thought it I ran it on the desktop it might run kmail quietly,
which might in fact have done what I wanted.)