Bench wrote:
>
> I have tried to access my mailbox using Netscape Messenger with IMAP
> protocol and instead of retrieving all the headers from my mailbox, it
> displayed all the files and directories in my HOME directory and
> directories where I have soft links. Is this an IMAP bug?
In fact, it's not.
In Messenger's preferences, you can set your server IMAP directory. So,
if you wanted your remote IMAP folders to be in, say,
/home/fwwhippl/.imap_remote you would set that to be the server IMAP
directory. On the other hand, if you set nothing, it lets the server
put you where ever it wants, and of course being a UNIX system, after
having authenticated, the IMAP process likely puts you into your home
directory. So, if Messenger then asks to see a folder list in the IMAP
folder, and the IMAP folder is (by default) your home directory, that's
what you get.
On the server side, I made a directory called:
/home/fwwhippl/.netscape/imap_remote
and set that directory as my server IMAP folder on the client side. Of
course it's empty, so I have no folders showing. If I made any folders
via Netscape, or in the directory structure on the host machine, they
would show up as folders.
Hope this helps.
-Fred
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