KMail: MBox account via sftp -- supposed to work?

[Michael Schuerig <michael.lists@schuerig.de>]

I'm looking for a way to monitor local mail notifications on my home 
server, ie the stuff cron jobs and daemons send to root and are 
forwarded to my user account there.

I'm much in favor of a lightweight solution and I've stumbled upon the 
approach to create a KMail Mbox account via sftp:

  sftp://michael@my-server:22/var/mail/michael

This only sort of works. KMail (or the Akonadi resource behind it) read 
the mbox's content once, but doesn't appear to update it when new 
messages arrive.

I was only half expecting this to work and therefore am not overly 
surprised. Nevertheless, I'm wondering if this is *supposed* to work.

Michael

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