On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 08:51:10PM -0500, Peter Wu wrote:
> Before installing courier-imap, I had my postfix/maildrop working pretty
> well with maildir.
>
> I emerged courier-imap this morning and started the daemon afterwards.
> Everything looked good but neither Outlook Express nor Mozilla Messenger
> can see the folders on the imap server. What's worse, Mozilla creates
> Inbox and Inbox.Trash folders on the server somewhere that I cannot find
> to delete them.
>
> After reading some docs, I guess the culprit could be the permissions of
> my maildirs.
>
> Here they are:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] peterwu $ ls -l ~/.maildir/
> total 3
> drwxr-xr-x 5 peterwu users 120 Jan 29 17:47 inbox
> drwx------ 8 peterwu users 232 Feb 1 21:20 lists
> drwx------ 5 peterwu users 120 Jan 29 17:52 postponed
> drwx------ 5 peterwu users 120 Jan 29 17:51 sent
> drwx------ 5 peterwu users 120 Jan 30 10:02 spam
>
Use ls -la and you should see the mozilla folders. They are hidden
files.
> lists is a dir under which I had mailing lists archived.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] peterwu $ ls -l ~/.maildir/lists/
> total 3
> drwx------ 5 peterwu users 120 Jan 29 17:48 gentoo-user
> drwx------ 5 peterwu users 120 Feb 1 18:07 mono-list
> drwx------ 5 peterwu users 120 Feb 1 21:20 postfix-users
> drwx------ 5 peterwu users 120 Feb 1 21:19 proftp-user
> drwx------ 5 peterwu users 120 Jan 30 17:31 slrn-user
> drwx------ 5 peterwu users 120 Jan 30 08:33 vim
>
> What I want to do is:
> When I log in the IMAP server with my peterwu username/password, I should
> be able to see everything under ~/.maildir/ from an IMAP client. In the
> meantime, mutt should be still working as before on the Linux box.
>
> The /etc/courier-imap/imapd contains:
>
> #Hardwire a value for ${MAILDIR}
> MAILDIR=.maildir
> #Put any program for ${PRERUN} here
> PRERUN=
>
> . What permissions should I put on those maildirs?
> . How to delete the annoying Inbox and Inbox.Trash dirs added by Mozilla?
>
> If you need me to post more information, please let me know. Thanks in advance!
I have a similar set up but mine looks like this:
$ ls -al ~/.maildir
drwx------ 15 mike users 488 Feb 2 19:16 .
drwxr-xr-x 15 mike users 1408 Feb 2 19:41 ..
drwx------ 5 mike users 152 Dec 12 21:49 .Drafts
drwx------ 6 mike users 224 Dec 23 08:34 .Sent
drwx------ 6 mike users 224 Dec 26 20:02 .Trash
drwx------ 6 mike users 192 Dec 23 09:16 .lists
drwx------ 6 mike users 240 Jan 31 06:20 .lists.clue-tech
drwx------ 6 mike users 768 Feb 2 19:46 .lists.gentoo-user
drwx------ 5 mike users 152 Oct 7 20:23 .lists.traffic
drwx------ 6 mike users 224 Feb 2 19:36 .outbox
drwx------ 6 mike users 224 Nov 26 13:28 .postponed
drwx------ 2 mike users 48 Feb 2 13:14 courierimapkeywords
-rw-r--r-- 1 mike users 64 Dec 12 21:53 courierimapsubscribed
-rw-r--r-- 1 mike users 3151 Feb 2 19:16 courierimapuiddb
drwx------ 2 mike users 4640 Feb 2 19:16 cur
drwx------ 2 mike users 48 Feb 2 19:16 new
drwx------ 2 mike users 48 Feb 2 19:42 tmp
You probably want to change the maildir/path separater. I think there is
an option for it can't recall right now. Will have to do some research.
HTH
Mike
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