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Re: [bincimap] Summary - Getting new mail into the INBOX

Andy Gayton
Sun, 14 Sep 2003 00:41:34 -0700

Thanks Dave and Mike for your replies.

My problem was qmail places new messages in $HOME/Maildir/new, but bincimap requires messages to go in $HOME/Maildir/INBOX/new when using IMAPdir.

Suggested solutions were:

* Change qmail to place messages directly into $HOME/Maildir/INBOX/new
* Use Maildir++
* Symbolic link $HOME/Maildir/INBOX to $HOME/Maildir

I decided to change qmail to deliver directly to INBOX/new. For people who followed lifewithqmail.org this is simply

#echo ./Maildir/INBOX/ > /var/qmail/control/defaultdelivery
#qmailctl restart

I also had to change qmail-pop3d's run script as it was hardcoded to point at 
$HOME/Maildir.    This works:
---
#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 2000000 \
   /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R -H -l 0 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup \
       cablelounge.com /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d ./Maildir/INBOX/ 
2>&1
---

Thanks again!
Andy.