On Sat, 3 Apr 2004, Sahil Tandon wrote: > On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 09:53:12AM +0100, Clive McDowell wrote: > > > mailutil move /var/mail/joesoap #driver.mbx/home/joesoap/INBOX > > > > Are there any other options? > > AFAIK, if an emtpy mbx format INBOX exists in /home/$user/INBOX, an imap > connection to the server will cause the mbx driver to "automatically snarf" the > contents of /var/mail/$user -> /home/$user/INBOX.
(Note: talking about "mbx" (without the 'o') format.) Is there any reason why "/var/mail/$user" (usually in trad. UNIX format) cannot itself be in "mbx" format? (Trying it as such seems not to work, and this seems to be confirmed by the "docs/drivers.txt" description.) It would be useful to us if our inboxes could continue to be in the normal, non-home "/var/mail" area, but in (optional) "mbx" format. Any philosophical reasons why this (so it seems) is not possible? Thanks in advance. -- : David Lee I.T. Service : : Systems Programmer Computer Centre : : University of Durham : : http://www.dur.ac.uk/t.d.lee/ South Road : : Durham : : Phone: +44 191 334 2752 U.K. :
