[wplug] Email disappearing/not accessible via KMail

[Benjamin Slavin]

Have you considered using Fetchmail? [ http://www.catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/ ]

We had a client who had a dial-up connection and wasn't always online, but 
wanted his employees to be able to access their email via IMAP at all times. 
We setup a simple OpenBSD box with Sendmail, UW IMAP and Fetchmail to handle 
his needs, and things worked flawlessly.

Fetchmail grabs mail from a POP3 account (among others) and sends it locally 
to port 25, so you can process the email yourself. That lets you store all of 
your mail locally, and you can set KMail to read from a local mailbox.

By doing this, you'll be able to continue to use mail and KMail side by side, 
and they should both always see all of your email.

 --Ben

On Wednesday 03 March 2004 09:22 am, Edward Bosco wrote:
> Bill -
>
> KMail on the receive side is using POP. Xmit is smtp. The messages within
> mail are emails from Earthlink. Your scenario sound very likely.
>
> Mail might pickup emails from Earthlink after modem connect and prior to
> invoking KMail.
>
> How might I suppress mail accessing the Internet/modem, and only funneling
> that traffic through KMail?
>
> here's a typical header:
> ====
> Message 540:
> From bounce-7141585y-104932 at in.m1e.net  Wed Feb 25 07:48:36 2004
> X-Original-To: ebosco at localhost.thompson.misc
> Delivered-To: ebosco at localhost.thompson.misc
> From: "e-thePeople.org" <e-thepeople at e-thepeople.org>
> Subject: Ralph Redux: Nader Announces Run for Presidency
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> On Wednesday 03 March 2004 09:07, Bill Moran wrote:
>
>  Edward Bosco wrote:
> > > All -
> > >
> > > I've an odd problem with emails coming off the Earthlink.net account
> > > not showing up in KMail.
> > >
> > > I'm running SuSE 8.2, with Konqueror as browser and KMail as email
> > > client.
> > >
> > > I got some messages from people, that sent me email that I'd never saw
> > > in the KMail inbox. When I open a console window and invoke the unix
> > > program 'mail', I see some messages in that inbox that I hadn't seen in
> > > KMail.
> > >
> > > I haven't seen anything via a google search that sheds light on this.
> > > I'm not seeing a clear path to get those emails requeued toso I can
> > > access them via KMail.
> >
> > Are you using POP3 with both of those clients?  If so, the UNIX mail is
> > downloading the emails from the server and they no longer exist when
> > Kmail checks for new mail.
> >
> > Otherwise, are these emails that are being sent to the local UNIX user
> > account? Check the headers, these messages may never have gotten out onto
> > the Internet at all.  Are they system status emails?  If so, most Posix
> > systems email system status messages to the local root account by
> > default. You'll have to reconfigure your maintenance routines to email to
> > your Internet account.
> >
> > Those are the two most likely causes of the problem.  If you want more
> > detailed answers, you'll have to provide more details of your setup (i.e.
> > POP3 vs. IMAP, example headers from problem emails, etc)
>
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