On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Giuseppe Ghib? wrote:
Stew Benedict wrote:
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).
Ok, I thought I saw you modify some other package in parallel with the imapd patch add/removal, which would imply that it is somehow dependent on the imapd setup.
It was to avoid by default things like $HOME/Mail/mail, but it's better
to use the same convention for all mail client, i.e. having mail
clients with "empty" mail subdir. Having one mail client which uses
(from remote point of view, not local repository) "Mail", and another "mail" and another "", it's only a mess.
So, I'm pretty much at a loss as to what to do. The only person I see raising an issue with the default is Guiseppe. Any change proposed raises N other issues, and a number of people just want the package pitched altogether.
Try to post the imap-2002d-6mdk (with mailsubdir = "mail"), and then we'll see. If it we'll se it's causing problem, we can just use the old scheme for all and letting the new one only available by uncommenting some line in config files.
Bye. Giuseppe.
