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Stew Benedict wrote:
--=-=-= Name : imap Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 2002d Vendor: MandrakeSoft Release : 3mdk Build Date: Fri Jul 25
01:02:31 2003
Install date: (not installed) Build Host:
bi.mandrakesoft.com
Group : System/Servers Source RPM: (none) Size : 1093945 License: BSD Packager : Stew Benedict <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://www.washington.edu/imap/ * Thu Jul 24 2003 Stew Benedict <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2002d-3mdk
- add patch17, mailsubdir in $HOME/Mail (Giuseppe Ghibò)
Is this wise? I have patched our own imap package that we run on our mail server to put mail in $HOME/mail, but I wasn't about to propose it (even though without it Outlook Express tries every subfolder of $HOME for mail folders), since surely this will disrupt existing servers which already have mail in $HOME ? Or at least, the release notes should warn about this, and tell you how to migrate (unless it has been tested and clients can still find the folders after the upgrade, which from what I remember is not the case).
IMHO is wise, as at a certain point the change should be made. With this patch IMAP put mails into $HOME/Mail even if IMAP directory is by default "null", as happens on 99.9% of browsers. This would also allow to avoid that mail clients accesses to $HOME system files, like $HOME/.kde, $HOME/.bashrc, $HOME/.ssh, which is insecure and also looks very unprofessional (and that happens for 99.99% of users who forgot to set a imap maildir name at first access); the migration from previous imapd version of course requires that:
a) mail clients (and RPM) that have a preconfigured subdir (or imap dir) set to something, e.g. "mail", "Mail", or "Mailbox", etc., will have such dir changed to "" (NULL), because that's already set into IMAP server. I've already fixed default mailsubdir in squirrel for this.
b) on the servers, the $HOME/.mailboxlist files containing:
mail/Trash mail/Drafts mail/MyBox
should be modified to look as
Trash Drafts MyBox
and files $HOME/mail/Trash, $HOME/mail/Drafts, etc. moved to $HOME/Mail/Trash, etc.; if the $HOME/.mailboxlist files contains entries like:
Mail/Drafts Mail/Trash Mail/MyBox
then only the .mailboxlist file should be modified, but the mailbox folders remains where they are. Maybe a simple perl script for automatically doing that could be provided.
Regards, Buchan
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