Re: Where should IMAP look for mail folders?

1999-03-28 Thread Jules Bean
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

Re: Where should IMAP look for mail folders?

1999-03-25 Thread Daniel Martin
[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

Re: Where should IMAP look for mail folders?

1999-03-24 Thread Daniel Martin
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

Re: Where should IMAP look for mail folders?

1999-03-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
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

Re: Where should IMAP look for mail folders?

1999-03-24 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
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

Re: Where should IMAP look for mail folders?

1999-03-24 Thread Philip Hands
Daniel Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... 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

Where should IMAP look for mail folders?

1999-03-23 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
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