On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Mark Clarkson wrote:
I can't get the imap server to write subscriptions to the .mailboxfilter
file. I've tried for hours now and I'm stumped :-(
Presumably, you mean .mailboxlist and not .mailboxfilter, as there is no
such file as the latter.
If I used '/' or '#user' as the imap server root directory (for Evolution
that is - nothing was required in Thunderbird) then I saw my Inbox and could
copy things into it.
Neither "/" nor "#user" are appropriate settings.
"/" means use names from the filesystem root. I doubt very much that is
what you want.
"#user" is a namespace that does not exist in UW imapd.
UW imapd requires that a name be a valid mailbox name in order to
subscribe it. You can not subscribe a non-existent name; nor can you
subscribe a non-mailbox directory. If your client expects to do either,
then it is broken.
I could create directories using the imap client but I
couldn't subscribe to folders. Evolution said that the server didn't support
subscriptions
If Evolution says that, then Evolution is broken. There is no such thing
as an IMAP server that does not support subscriptions. The SUBSCRIBE,
UNSUBSCRIBE, and LSUB commands are all mandatory parts of the protocol.
and Thunderbird found folders to subscribe to but uw-imap
wouldn't write to the mailboxfilter file so on client restart the directories
I created would dissapear.
What do you mean "won't write"?
What were the texts of any error messages which you got?
I've straced uw-imapd and it does find the mailboxfilter file in my home
directory.
I still don't know what you mean by mailboxfilter file. There is no such
file in UW imapd. Subscriptions are in the .mailboxlist file.
-- Mark --
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