Luca Berra wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 07:44:44PM -0400, Stew Benedict wrote: >>On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, David Walser wrote: >>> >>>>imap shouldn't use $HOME/Mail because other apps use that (Kmail etc). >>> >>>>$HOME/mail might be safe. >> >>Guiseppe and I discussed this on IRC. I'm thinking it's probably safest >>for imapd to use it's own namespace, .uwmail or Mailuw or something, >>rather than try to use mail, Mail etc. which have been historically used >>by a number of local mail clients. It would be handy to be able to share >>the folders, but given that there's no guarantee what might be found >>there, probably safest not to use them. > > i do not agree > ~/Mail and/or ~/mail have been historically used to store mbox formatted > folders (the latter was introduced by pine IIRC), ~/Maildir was added > when maildir was invented to store maildir folders. > > If uw/dovecot use ~/Mail expecting to find mbox files and ~/Maildir for > maildir it's ok with me.
Think of it like this. If Kmail is download stuff with POP and putting it in ~/Mail, then it's mail from another server, not the local machine (which is a different server), so mails from two different servers are getting mixed in one set of folders (maybe desirable, but maybe not). If however Kmail is really only getting mail from the local server, it should probably just be doing that using the IMAP protocol, then it won't mess around directly in ~/Mail, and there will be no locking issues (it's a good general principle, don't muck with files directly when there's a protocol). > switching to .uwmail will annoy all the people that are used to sharing > folders between imap and a local MUA. They can easily make symlinks.
