It came with FC5, and gets updated through yum. I have not tried a fresh
build. Will give that a shot.
We do indeed have a c-client.cf file, which looks like it explains the new
default ~/Mail folders. Here is the two line contents:
I accept the risk of using UW-IMAP
set mail-subdirectory Mail
I assume that I can change that to "mail" or remove it completely to
default to the user's home directory.
I have further isolated the problem with my account to the Mail/
subdirectory. I can create mailboxes in my home directory if I specify a
path from root. But as soon as I include Mail/ in the path, it tells me
that the mailbox already exists. This is not the case for mail/, nor is
it the case if I try the same procedure in another user's account.
I have, of course, attempted deleting and recreating the Mail/ directory,
and have double-checked ownership and permissions.
This is quite a bit beyond my ken, but is there any reason to be
suspicious of the fact that my home directory is on another disk? Could
imapd be handling the "Mail" directory differently because it's on a
different device?
In any event, I will try installing a fresh download of the software to
see if that has any impact on the problem.
Thanks for your very prompt help!
- Andrew
On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Mark Crispin wrote:
The problems that you report are indeed bizarre, and are not anything that is
expected.
Did your copy of imap-2006a come directly from the UW FTP server:
ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/mail/imap.tar.Z
Or, did it come from a third party?
If it came from a third party, it may be modified. Have you tried the
unmodified UW imap-2006a?
Is there an /etc/c-client.cf on your system? If so, did you put it there
and/or do you approve of its contents? If not, what happens when you remove
that file?
Some third party distributions install /etc/c-client.cf files that break UW
imapd. The fix is almost always to delete that file. Most sites do not need
that file.
-- Mark --
http://staff.washington.edu/mrc
Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate.
Si vis pacem, para bellum.
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