Mark Crispin wrote:
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.
I did mean .mailboxlist, sorry for the confusion, I was a bit tired at
that point.
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.
After more reading am I right in saying that "/" could be used if I was
using the "black box mode"?
"#user" is a namespace that does not exist in UW imapd.
"#user" was shown in the release notes but grep found it hence I missed
the 'Windows-specific Changes' heading.
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 made a mistake when I removed courier - I removed it but courier tcp
wrappers were still in effect somehow. This caused some of the strange
problems I was having and now Thunderbird sees my home directory in all
its glory but I'm still having problems with Evolution and Outlook 2003.
I felt that I was missing some vital knowledge here that I did not need
for Cyrus, Courier, Dovecot, or Dbmail, so I've just read some of the
rfcs in the docs directory and now know a _little_ more but I still
can't figure out how to get Outlook and Evolution working with the
default uw-imap configuration. I know it can be done, and that it's
probably simple but I can't see it.
The only thing I can think of is that I have the wrong namespace. I am
under the impression now however that using uw-imap as-is, with no
changes to the source and no extra c-client.conf or .imaprc, that a
user's home directory will be the mail store. I have an INBOX in my home
directory which I can copy emails into (from another working imap
account) and I can subscribe/unsubscribe to any file using Thunderbird
(and I mean any file at all - not just those in a mailbox format). When
I issue a namespace command by running imapd under my username I get:
* NAMESPACE (("" "/")("#mhinbox" NIL)("#mh/" "/")) (("~" "/"))
(("#shared/" "/")("#ftp/" "/")("#news." ".")("#public/" "/"))
,so a valid namespace for me would be "" or "~"?
I want to get uw-imap working in it's default configuration first before
trying any other fancier ones, but would I be right in saying that other
configurations may be more compatible with the more popular email
clients and this could be the root of my problem, or does it sound more
like I have messed something up?
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