This is more of an IMAP server problem than anything else.
What I have been doing for years is to patch the IMAP server source to use a
"mail" subdirectory instead of the home directory.
For IMAP to use the home directory is VERY VERY stupid, and is a security flaw
IMHO... The IMAP server comes with instructions on how to change this.
Unfortunately, the IMAP server used by most distributions (the UW IMAP server)
has hard coded values and doesn't use runtime config files. You have to modify
the source and rebuild. This again is stupid, but you do what you have to do...
If you use RedHat, you can grab the SRPM's and rebuild fairly easily (I always
grab the raw source from UW and build things by hand however.)
Good luck!
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 04:39:52PM -0500, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
>
> When eudora is configured as an IMAP client, it connects to the server and
> begins scanning the Dominant (e.g. home) directory, to populate its
> cache. Since the IMAP server was the same system my linux account is on
> (e.g. running win4lin as a client on top of it), and since win4lin defaults
> to putting the 'win' directory in the user's home directory, and since
> Eudora's IMAP cache is down inside the C: drive somewhere, as Eudora
> creates more and more cache files, those in turn become visible to the IMAP
> server, which ships them back to Eudora, which creates more (recursively in
> the directory structure) cache entries, etc... I finally stopped Eudora
> after it had been running for close to an hour, and had copied over 400MB
> of crap :( Only solution I could think of was to move the 'win' directory
> elsewhere...
>
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