On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, Walter Reed wrote:

> 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...

There were basically ZERO docs that came with it :(

> 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.)

I'm actually running mandrake 6.1, but that's probably close enough.  I'll
give it a try...

> Good luck!

thanks!



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