Hi Chris,

Once I determined that I needed to accept the risk (I had no existing
/etc/c-client.cf), your answer was precisely what I was looking for. It
works perfectly. I appreciate your swift response.

Thanks,

Shaun

On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:04:04 -1000
"Chris Picciotto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> You can place the following line in /etc/c-client.cf
> 
> Set hide-dot-files 1
> 
> If your mail is all in ~/mail directory for all users, you can also set the
> mail subdirectory in c-client.cf as well using:
> 
> Set mail-subdirectory mail
> 
> This is, in my opinion, a real weakness of UW-IMAP. The "Maildir" folder, as
> used by Dovecot for example, avoids that issue altogether.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shaun
> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 5:53 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Imap-uw] Forcing uw-imap to ignore directories in ~/mail?
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Recently I've decided to version my home directory in svn. As a result,
> I now have a ~/mail/.svn directory. This has appeared as a folder in my
> mail client, and shows "new messages" whenever I do any Subversion
> commits.
> 
> Is there a way to instruct uw-imap to ignore certain directories instead
> of treating them as mail folders? I can take the opposite approach if
> necessary (by telling Subversion to ignore ~/mail, as it's backed up
> elsewhere). Curious if anyone's run into this situation before.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Shaun
> 
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