Hi, forgive me if this is in the archives or has a well known basic solution but what I would like to do is have the imap server always look in a fixed location outside the users' home dirs for folders. e.g.
UNIX home dir: /homes/<username> imap folder dir: /mailhome/<username>/folders irregardless of what their IMAP client has set for the IMAP folder directory. In addition, I'd like to also have the imap server think their home dir is /mailhome/<username> instead of what the system says from the passwd information. In our current setup of UNIX machines, users' home dirs are scattered across 50 or so machines and we use 'amd' to make sure no matter what machine the user logs in on they always get the same home dir. In order to support legacy mail readers, I'd like our post office box server (where imap/pop run) to also give the user this home dir if they choose to login directly to it to use a mail client that reads things directly from their INBOX/spool. But what I'd like to avoid is the other 50 or so filesystems all being automounted when users read their mail with pop/imap. It seems that the imap server process looks in this directory for some things which is causing the automount to take place - even if the user has their folder directory set to a separate fixed location such as /mailhome/<username>/folders. Currently, our workaround is to give folks a separate home dir on the post office box machine which overrides the information in our NIS database. This works except for the legacy folks. So, I am wondering if there is a more elegant solution within the imap/pop code to deal with this. If not, then I'll know to move to Plan B. :) We're currently testing imap-2004.RC9 and that is the code revision level I am currently looking at. thanks very much, --tom -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ For information about this mailing list, and its archives, see: http://www.washington.edu/imap/c-client-list.html ------------------------------------------------------------------
