Short question: Can the *mailsubdir string be appended if, and only
if, an IMAP client folder LIST doesn't include a directory? If not,
can anyone think of a method to strip off a directory name included in
a LIST command?
Current system:
Solaris 8/SPARC, using imap-2004b.DEV.SNAP-0411051435.
*mailsubdir= NIL;
*sysinbox = ... sprintf (tmp,"%s/.mail",myhomedir ());
I've been using IMAP for a long time (since 1998), and I have a
remarkable variety of "vintage" IMAP clients. At the time, UW-IMAP
didn't support the *mailsubdir option, so I configured the on-campus
mail clients to store their folders in "Mail/". With the current
Mozilla clients, this option is called the "IMAP Server Directory".
Unfortunately, I now have a number of users who have mis-configured
their home Mozilla/Netscape clients, and who haven't set this
directory. Thus, they can't see their on-campus mailboxes, or delete
Unix-side files in $HOME, etc. Since I can't enforce client-side
options before they connect to the IMAP server, I need to change the
IMAP server's default mail directory to "Mail/".
I've looked at the code in src/osdep/unix/env_unix.c, the *mailsubdir
variable, and and the mymailboxdir() function. If I set the string to
"Mail", it will always prepend the subdirectory to the path. This may
work fine with the misconfigured clients, but then the rest of the
mail clients would be looking in "Mail/Mail" for their folders, which
won't work.
While I can modify these on-campus client configs, it will take some
time. I need an interim solution where I could have both "" and
"Mail" map to the same mailboxes.
Can anyone make a suggestion on how I can make both of these work?
I've been toying with DoveCot 1.0 and using its "private namespace"
feature, but I don't think it's ready for large-scale use just yet.
Thank you for any ideas you can provide.
Dallas
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