> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2003 2:46 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [courier-users] Mail Directory Structures.
> You may be mixing up two different things. Let me make sure that > we're talking about the same thing. (Sorry if I'm insulting your > intelligence! :-) > Maildirs are simply special sorts of folders that certain > mta's (courier, > postfix, etc.) can deliver mail to (one message per file) and > certain imap > servers (courier) can read. This has nothing to do with > Inbox, Outbox, etc. > With this sort of setup your Inbox is a maildir, your outbox > is a maildir, in > fact every folder you see in your mail client is really a maildir. Jeff Thanks for taking the time. Okay, prehaps I got it wrong. I was pretty sure that I'd read that the courier (and/or postfix???) would take care of this for me. Why else must I specify the Sent and Trash parameters in /etc/imapd?? Anyway, if it doesn't, it doesn't.. So moving swiftly on.. > First are you creating the folders inside of your INBOX? You set up > an account and you specify a HOME and MAIL directory. That MAIL > directory is a > maildir. So let's say that the HOME directory for someone is > "/home/mailusers/john" and the MAIL directory is > "/home/mailusers/john/Maildir". The MAIL directory is that > user's INBOX. So > if you want to create a "Drafts" folder for this account then > you would run > > maildirmake -f Drafts /home/mailusers/user/Maildir After reading the man file, I thought I had a grip on this when I tried it. The line I used was...Anyway, I deleted everything and started all over again as per your instructions. This worked, but with the net result that I had folders caled Drafts, Sent Items, Outbox and Trash as *subfolders* of my Inbox (Because that is what Outlook called). This looks a) messy and b) illogical. What I would like is to have Drafts, Sent, Trash, etc as *sister* folders to the Inbox. I tried to do this, and it is possible to but Outlook still puts them all as a subdirectory of Inbox. Which doesn't help. Is there a way to do what I want, or am I pissing into the wind? Lydiard > That would create a maildir "/home/mailusers/user/Maildir/.Drafts" > which your clients should see as the folder 'Drafts'. Maildirs have > permissions 700 so > make sure that you create the maildir as the proper user. If > you create the > maildir as root but the account is owned by user "john" then > your client > won't be able to access that folder. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
