However, I’m having no luck logging in to accounts and
I suspect this is because the mailbox/folders section
is not properly setup. ClarkConnect stores its
mailboxes in:
/var/spool/mail/
The trouble is, because of the aforementioned Linux ignorance, I really don’t know if this is a standard or none standard place for mailboxes. Also, I really don’t understand the instructions at bincimap-faq regarding “How can I tell bincIMAP where my mailboxes/folders are?”
Do you have a ./Maildir/ directory in your home account?
I'm not entirely sure you're placing your mail in the right place. A user's Maildir-style mail directory is almost always in the user's home directory. Putting all mail in a spool directory is a totally different way of storing messages called "mbox".
mbox-style storage has flaws that the Maildir-style format attempts to fix. To simplify the situation, consider a user on your system named "bob". If you use mbox-style mail storage, all of bob's messages are written to a single file: /var/spool/mail/bob. If you use Maildir-style mail storage, all his messages are written as separate files in the directory $HOME/bob/Maildir/new/, wherever that may be.
Binc does not understand mbox-style storage. If your messages are being written to /var/spool/mail, you need to change the way you store messages. Since you're using getmail, I looked at its configuration page. Here's one of Charles's examples:
[My Aqua Account] server = mailhost.aqua.myisp.tld username = shannon.fotheringham postmaster = ~shannonf/Maildir/
Here, mail is being delivered to shannonf, and it's being put in $HOME/shannonf/Maildir/. If you don't have a ./Maildir/ directory, you'll have to create one.
Toby
