Re: [Sheflug] mailbox format

["Gareth" <gareth [at] xxxxxxxx>]

> I did have to tell UW though at build time that the incoming mail spool was
> in $HOME, so unless Gareth is going to rebuild his imapd, or check to see
> if his RPMs support the spool being in $HOME, he'll need a different
> server, or keep the mail spool in /var/spool/mail - UW has no supported
> configuration file with which this can be tweaked

Thanks for that info Chris.

I guess I'm happy to keeping using UW-IMAP, the only limitation I see is
that it doesn't seem to support folders in folders; as each folder is a
flat file. I think I can handle this.

I found a file '/usr/share/doc/imap-2001a/CONFIG' that says...

<quote>
Example 2: suppose you want to change c-client's idea of the
user's mailbox directory to be the "mail" subdirectory of the user's
home directory instead of the user's home directory.  You will want to
change variable mailsubdir, changing the line that reads:

static char *mailsubdir = NIL;  /* mail subdirectory name */
 to be:
static char *mailsubdir = "mail";/* mail subdirectory name */
</quote>

So I can keep Postfix delivering to /var/spool/mail/flatfile, but I guess
to solve the everything-dumped-in-my-home-directory problem I need to do
something with source code and compiling, given there is no config file
for WU-IMAP? I'm a newb remember :-)

Or maybe I should just use a different IAMP server, although I have grown
quite attached to WU-IMAP, especially after reading about it on the FAQ
:-) I had a look at Courier, but it seems massive and complicated.

Sorry this post is structureless.


Gareth



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