I'm not involved in dovecot. If people want to toss uw (you seem to have strong feelings in this area), I don't have any religious devotion to it, I'm just trying to maintain the package.
David Walser raised another issue with the new proposed scheme. If one updates uw, and it doesn't move to ~/whatever, and updates squirrelmail, which now expects ~/whatever, then what happens?
Guiseppe? Seems like any approach to this change creates more issues than it fixes.
IMHO is not the approach that create issues, but such issues already were existing before (like kmail who wrote in $HOME/Mail); the only difference is that such issues weren't discussed all together in mailing list before.
Current squirrelmail (as horde) doesn't expect ~/whatever. It have an empty mailsubdir, like any other existing (even non Linux) mail client. That's mean that if imapd uses $HOME/Mail, or $HOME/mail as mail folder prefix, it will use it (in a trasparent way, i.e. only see folders inside $HOME/mail). If the imapd uses $HOME as happened before imap-2002d-6mdk (except imap-2002d-3mdk), then squirrel will use
$HOME, and each squirrel user would have access to the $HOME system
files (and he can provide a mail folder prefix on a per users basis).
Bye. Giuseppe
