> On Sun, 23 May 2004, Thomas Smith wrote: >> 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.
I've looked into this. It is possible to do--it just takes some work. I may just write a howto so users with large, slow mboxes (or those who rely heavliy on IMAP-based webmail) can convert to the mbx format themselves and create new mbx mailboxes--if they choose. > 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. This should be easy enough. I've already got the current UW IMAP installed on a server that I'd planned on using for testing. I do have one question here, though. There are some minor library differences between RH 7.3 and current Linux distros--mailutil requires some of the newer libraries. I've looked through the BUILD and CONFIG docs and haven't found a way to build a statically linked mailutil--can you suggest a way to do this?
