Re: IMAP default mailbox in user's home dir

1999-06-22 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
If there is a file called $HOME/mail/mbox, imapd will use that as the inbox. Actually this is a bug (report #33780) it should look in $HOME/mbox but I haven't quite figured out how to do that yet. To answer your questions, 1) The config file is unsupported and can break between versions. The a

Re: IMAP default mailbox in user's home dir

1999-06-22 Thread Leszek Gerwatowski
On Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 08:53:04AM -0400, Dpk wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Rigacci wrote: > >I have two questions: > >1) Is it possible to change imap without recompiling it? I read a >lot of warning for using a configuration file. > >2) Is there a Debian policy about mail

Re: IMAP default mailbox in user's home dir

1999-06-22 Thread Dpk
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Rigacci wrote: I'm setting an IMAP server for math students. I wish the user mailbox to be in each home directory, so quota can prevent someone filling the /var/spool/mail. I yet configured smail and pine to search for the user inbox in ${HOME}/mail/inbox fi

Re: IMAP default mailbox in user's home dir

1999-06-22 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 12:23:51PM +0200, Rigacci wrote: > The IMAP server (imap 4.4-4) is OK to store folders in ${HOME}/mail/ but > it insists on searching /var/spool/mail/${USER} for the inbox. This isn't a "real solution", but, will IMAP accept a sym link in /var/spool/mail/${USER} ==> ${HO

IMAP default mailbox in user's home dir

1999-06-22 Thread Rigacci
I'm setting an IMAP server for math students. I wish the user mailbox to be in each home directory, so quota can prevent someone filling the /var/spool/mail. I yet configured smail and pine to search for the user inbox in ${HOME}/mail/inbox file. In the same mail directory Pine creates its folder