On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Andrew Roy wrote:
We do indeed have a c-client.cf file, which looks like it explains the new
default ~/Mail folders.
Please delete that /etc/c-client.cf file entirely.
I recommend that, in the future, you get your updates of UW imapd directly
from UW and not trust third party distributions. The fact that your
distribution hacked the software in a non-standard way (and I doubt they
told you that they it so) by creating a /etc/c-client.cf (which is
non-standard by definition) indicates that they hacked it in other ways as
well.
Sadly, there's no way you can tell how your third-party distribution has
been hacked. There is little quality control on these hacks; and all too
often, the third-party hacks will break some behavior that current users
have come to depend upon.
Just as an example, I've seen /etc/c-client.cf file that set the mail
directory being set to be "Mail " (note the trailing space). I've seen
people waste *hours* trying to figure that one out!
I hope that eventually these open source distributions clean up their act.
We could have done without the "freedom" to hack someone else's software
and redistribute the hacked version without even saying that you hacked it
(much less notify the original author of what was hacked).
Sadly, the result of the current situation is that a lot of end users get
screwed for no good reason, and developers waste their time answering
problem reports for problems they didn't cause.
-- Mark --
http://panda.com/mrc
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
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