Well, I think I can answer your questions:
1) Instead of inetd, why not just leave it up? A portscan'll launch it,
anyway, so you'd best trust the security, no?
2) IMHO, IMAP's folder "paradigm" is dumb: you can only create folders
*inside* your inbox. Give that a try, and see what happens...
-Ken
On Sat, 4 Aug 2001, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:
> All,
>
> I admit to not being the most knowledgeable person when it comes to
> IMAP, so the fact that I need to ask a few stupid questions comes as
> no surprise to me. So, here goes:
>
> I have IMAP (IMAP4rev1 v12.264) running out of inetd on the same
> system as sendmail. From the client, I can send and receive mail just
> fine. If I ssh to the mail server, I can create a file, and then on
> the client I can subscribe to that file (folder) and move mail into
> it. However, from the client side, I cannot create mail folders. If I
> try to create a "folder" named `test`, I get an error that says: "The
> current command did not succeed. The mailserver responded: CREATE
> failed: Can't create mailbox node /home/kenny/mbox: File Exists.".
>
> So I have two questions:
>
> 1) Is there a better way to run imapd instead of running it out of
> inetd?
>
> 2) Why can't I create "folders" from the client side?
>
> TIA,
> Kenny
>
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