I do this not because it actually _does_ anything but because I don't want
any trace of mbox anywhere on my system. I also delete all traces of "mbox"
from the driver list. Just because it is meaningless does not mean it's
wrong, AFAIK. What would be wrong for me would be creating an mbox mailbox.
We had so many problems with mbox at my last large installation of UW-IMAP
that I want it nowhere near my servers.
>From what I can tell setting EMPTYPROTO to mbx is in fact meaningless but
won't hurt anything and will achieve my goal of removing mbox. I've run it
for four years or so with no ill effects. Someone care to comment?
n
----- Original Message -----
From: "David B Funk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Nick Hodulik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Sebastian Hagedorn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 10:36 PM
Subject: Re: mailbox format problems
> On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Nick Hodulik wrote:
>
> > There is a way. You have to dig down into the code and change
"CREATEPROTO"
> > and "EMPTYPROTO" from mbox to mbx. Assuming your in *nix you'll have to
go
> > to src/osdep/unix/env_unix.c or something similar to do this. If you
want
> > mail to live in a subdirectory called "mail" in each users home dir then
you
> > must change src/osdep/unix/Makefile to reflect this as well.
>
> Before you tell people to do this, you might want to go read the
> documentation to find out why setting EMPTYPROTO to "mbx" is meaningless
> and wrong.
>
> Dave
>
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