How do I get mailutil seperate from UW IMAP? I've looked at the FTP site and can only find imap-utils.
mailutil is bundled with the UW IMAP toolkit.
Note that the old imap-utils distribution required the UW IMAP toolkit; it would not build without it.
Does this mean that mbx-formatted mailboxes will have to be manually enabled for each user account that's created if this value does not default to mbx?
If the software is built in its default configuration, the default format for newly-created mailboxes is traditional UNIX format and not mbx. This is only if you do not specify a format when creating the mailbox. You can always force a format by specifying it, e.g.
mailutil create #driver.mbx/example
which will create an mbx-format mailbox named "example".
Note that the #driver.mbx/ prefix is only used when creating the mailbox, and not when accessing it.
Ensim uses a proprietary API that enables UW IMAP to chroot to a domains' "root" directory. (Every domain has its own chroot environment. Their setup thus enables every domain to have their own /etc/passwd, /etc/group, /etc/procmailrc, and so on.)
It sounds like you have to look to Ensim for support, since they have apparently modified the software and it seems that you need those modifications (so switching to unmodified UW distributions is probably not an option).
I don't know what the Ensim customizations are; and I generally advise people to upgrade to the current UW distribution to make sure we are on the same wavelength.
If all you want to do is just get mailutil installed without tampering with your existing Ensim software, I would suggest getting a copy of unmodified UW IMAP to build mailutil, and once you get a mailutil binary you can toss out everything else.
-- Mark --
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