On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Deb Teale wrote: > Don't want the user to create a file in /var/spool/mail. Want imap to > skip this if it doesn't exist and go right to the mbox.
You'll have to modify some code. c-client does not support the environment you want; therefore you must modify it to do so. You have a non-standard environment. By definition, INBOX always exists and is appendable. mbox is *never* created by c-client (and people would be very angry if it was); it must be explicitly created by some external entity. Therefore, if mbox does not exist, c-client must append to the file in /var/spool/mail, creating it if necessary. > The mbox exists, is readable, etc, but is not appendable. Why is that? In any case, the environment that you describe is non-standard, and c-client does not support it out of the box. The only way to support it is to modify c-client. Fortunately, you have sources. Unfortunately, the modifications aren't going to be as trivial as changing a single line someplace. -- Mark -- http://staff.washington.edu/mrc Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate.
