On Mon, 26 Aug 2002 19:11:03 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) Randy Kramer <"Randy Kramer 
<rhkramer"@fast.net>, [email protected] wrote:

RK> Yes, that seems to work, except that it won't seem to display my IMAP inbox
RK> (at /var/spool/mail/dad on another machine) with the other imap folders
RK> (/home/dad/mail on that same other machine) under the same IMAP
RK> "account" folder.

 I still don't understand how are your folders organized on the IMAP
server. The file names don't really have much to do with this, it depends
on how is your server configured.

RK> I reinstalled Mahogany after (IIRC) clearing out the existing registry
RK> entries.  (I'm using Mahogany 0.64.2 on Win95).  (Background: The first time I 
installed
RK> Mahogany, I initially set up a pop3 account and only later (after getting
RK> my IMAP server working) set up an IMAP account.)  This time, I set up an
RK> IMAP account during the installation.  I forget the exact details (and
RK> don't plan to repeat them) but at a certain point, Mahogany started
RK> scanning to add mail folders to the account.  Mahogany basically went 
RK> through the entire file tree on the mail server machine and added each 
RK> folder to the directory, and then, somehow "recursed" (or looped) and did
RK> it again, in fact it did it something like 6 or 7 times until the Windows
RK> machine died for lack of space.

 This is pretty worrying. The most likely reason for this loop that I see
would be a loop in the file system on the IMAP server (symbolic links
pointing to each other, for example) -- could this be the case?

RK> (I guess that occurred because it periodically tried to back up the
RK> registry to disk??)

 No, but there are plenty of other reasons for which infinite recursion is
bad...

RK> Well, the problem was that I had to have one IMAP account for the INBOX,
RK> and another (with mailbox "mail") for the other folders.  And, if I did
RK> browse for subfolders under the INBOX account, it started doing the same
RK> thing I described above it started adding all the files on my mail server
RK> as mail folders in the Mahogany tree.

 You can "Browse subfolders" but don't answer "Yes" to the question if you
want to add all of them. Then you may look at what does it see on your
server.

 Regards,
VZ





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