[ILUG] Sync-ing kmail on desktop and laptop

[Timothy Murphy]

On Mon 16 Apr 2007, Cian Davis wrote:

> > to collect mail from /var/spool/ on a different machine.
> >
> > I guess I could export /var/spool/mail/ as well. Is that the
> > simplest solution?
>
> Simplest solution would be using IMAP(S) and using that to
> do your mail syncing.

Thanks for your advice.
I tried following it, but only with partial success.
First I installed cyrus-imapd, but I decided on reading the documentation
that life was too short for this;
so I uniinstalled cyrus-imap and installed dovecot instead.

But as far as I could see, when I ran kmail (with an imap account)
on my laptop the email was downloaded from my desktop to the laptop, 
which wasn't what I wanted.
Maybe I set up the IMAP account on kmail on my laptop incorrectly?