On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Daniel Martin wrote:
As for the proper solution, I'm not sure. One could move $MBOXROOT
back to $HOME, on the grounds that one never knows where else the
upstream authors may have assumed that the two are the same, and then
silently prepend mail/ to any mailbox name
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg) writes:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Daniel Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm actually surprised that there seem to be so few dfsg-free imapd
implementations - it certainly seems like something that's easier to
do than an smtp daemon, and
Jaldhar H. Vyas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
However lately there have been two bug reports (#33780, #34056) which
suggest that this may not have been a good move. I could hack the
c-client library IMAP uses for mailbox access to solve the particular
problems mentioned in the bug reports but
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Daniel Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm actually surprised that there seem to be so few dfsg-free imapd
implementations - it certainly seems like something that's easier to
do than an smtp daemon, and goodness knows people don't tire of
reinventing that particular
Daniel Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
#33780 arises from the fact that pine understands this slurp the
incoming mail into a file called mbox behavior, and if a file called
$HOME/mbox exists, will dutifully copy any mail it finds in the system
inbox into this file and manipulate it just the
Daniel Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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I would conclude from this that the imapd (or is it c-client?) authors
don't know when they want to use $MBOXROOT and when they want to use
$HOME; in fact, I doubt if it is ever tested upstream with $MBOXROOT
set to anything other than $HOME.
Sounds
A long time ago, a bug was filed against my IMAP package because it looked
for mail folders in the users $HOME directory. This had the unfortunate
side effect in most IMAP clients of causing any other files which were in
the home directory to show up as folders. It was suggested that I make
the
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