Thanks for the quick response! However, I think I must have not expressed myself very clearly regarding the "Inbox". The problem is not that I want to rename "Inbox" to be "INBOX".
Instead I would like BincIMAP to expose "." as something else, for example "Inbox". I'm using
Mailbox {
depot = "IMAPdir",
type = "Maildir",
path = "Maildir",
auto create inbox = "no",
auto subscribe mailboxes = ".",
umask = "077"
}This allows me to create folders on the same level as the inbox. If I would have used depot="Maildir++" then BincIMAP only allows me to create folders under Inbox.
BUT: The configuration shown above exposes the inbox as "." Instead of being exposed as "." I'd rather have it exposed as something else, such as "Inbox". ;-)
- Felix
On 21 Nov 2003, at 13:30, Andreas Aardal Hanssen wrote:
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, felix wrote:Hi!
I've written a document about how qmail, vpopmail and BincIMAP interact.
It's my first Wiki, so please excuse the imperfect formatting and
naming. I've put it on the "Life With Binc IMAP" page.
Good, the more the better. This doc clarifies the execution of bincimap-up
and bincimapd, which is something we may want to extract into a seperate
doc, but for now it should remain where it is. :-)
There is still one question open, and that is how to configure BincIMAP
so that it exposes the incoming folder as "Inbox" or "INBOX", and also
allows new mail folders to be created on the same level as Inbox. Can
anything, apart from a symbolic link, save the day? ;-)
If I understand correctly:
Binc IMAP displays it as INBOX, but you want it to say "Inbox"? Hmm, allowing that almost certainly sounds like adding a new configuration option, which is something I only see as a final resort. "Eliminate options". :-)
People who are used to INBOX won't mind it being displayed as Inbox, I'm
quite certain. And since the special name Inbox is case insensitive, it
would still be perfectly allowed to select INBOX, or to LIST or LSUB to
INBOX.
However, it is usually the client's job to translate the INBOX name into
something that looks more convenient to the user, such as "Innboks" or
"Boite de reception". I wouldn't be surprised if some clients display the
folder as INBOX, even if the server did display it as "Inbox".
If you'd like, I could send you a little patch which shows INBOX as Inbox
for you to test (operator-list.cc changes only), or you could do some
modification yourself and see if it works.
Up to you. :-)
Andy
-- Andreas Aardal Hanssen | http://www.andreas.hanssen.name/gpg Author of Binc IMAP | "It is better not to do something http://www.bincimap.org/ | than to do it poorly."
