On Monday 27 September 2004 22:32, Matt Pusateri wrote: > Trilugers, > > I was wondering if anyone else was noticing this in Squirrelmail. I > have message counts turned on with folder refresh. It seems that > under Firefox 0.8 and 1.0PR that the message totals do not get > updated even though the time of the folder refresh indicates a > refresh has happened. This has been since I updated from 1.4.2 to > 1.4.3a . Now if I click on the inbox, my message list gets updated > showing new messages, but the > message count still does not get updated until I click folder refresh > after having clicked the inbox. It seems to work fine in IE, so > maybe this is a firefox issue? > > > FreeBSD 5.3Beta3 > Squirrelmail 1.4.3a - compiled from ports > PHP4.3.8 with openssl statically compiled - also from ports > UW-IMAP2004d. - from ports > Firefox 1.0PR on W2K > IE 5.5SP4 on W2K > > Thanks, > > Matt Pusateri > > > I found the following on the Squirrelmail-dev list which solved my > problem. > > > Try checking the setup of your IMAP server. I'm using UW-IMAP, and I > noticed the > following behaviour, which isn't a bug but a feature. > > Incoming mail is delivered to "/var/spool/mail/[username]", which is > the inbox in SquirrelMail. If [username] has a file called "~/mbox", > this file > is the inbox. When a update of the folder list is made, the "newmail" > plugin detects > incoming messages and changes the titlebar accordingly, but > the number of mail in the INBOX folder doesn't change. When I press > the INBOX link, the IMAP server moves incoming mails from > "/var/spool/mail/[username]" to "~/mbox" and then displays the > content. > Next update of the folder list shows all mails as expected. > > There are ways to avoid this problem, but I haven't bother to find > out how. I know > that, at least for some IMAP servers, you can configure the > MTA to run a small program each time a mail arrives, moving the > incoming > mail from "/var/spool/mail/[username]" to an inbox located elsewhere. > > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=squirrelmail-devel&m=108098673024816&; >w=4
you might also get around this by delivering mail directly to the "correct" location, rather than /var/log/mail. slap something like this in the beginning of /etc/procmailrc: DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/ i use courier and maildirs, if you're running uw-imap it will be slightly different. this way -all- user mail is in their homedir rather than the inbox in /var/log/mail and everything else in ~, a setup i despise. jason -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
