On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 01:47:43PM +0200 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
Timothy Murphy thought:
>> I only get recent email on my laptop in rainy Italy
> after I run kmail on my server in sunny(?) Ireland.
> This isn't actually any problem, as I don't have to read the email there,
> just start kmail and stop it after it initialises.
>> But is there a simpler way of dealing with this?
> I don't see any setting in kmail on my laptop
> that will bring up recent email on the server.
> (Email in the server is fetched from various mail-servers
> and left in /var/spool/mail/... and collected from there by kmail.)
Two options.
1. Point your laptop at the IMAP user's INBOX instead of at
$HOME/Mail/... which is, presumably, where kmail moves it to from
/var/spool/mail/
2. Install and configure procmail to sort your incoming mail to your
$HOME/Mail/... directories.
Conor
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