On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 08:51:10PM -0500, Peter Wu wrote: > Before installing courier-imap, I had my postfix/maildrop working pretty > well with maildir. > > I emerged courier-imap this morning and started the daemon afterwards. > Everything looked good but neither Outlook Express nor Mozilla Messenger > can see the folders on the imap server. What's worse, Mozilla creates > Inbox and Inbox.Trash folders on the server somewhere that I cannot find > to delete them. > > After reading some docs, I guess the culprit could be the permissions of > my maildirs. > > Here they are: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] peterwu $ ls -l ~/.maildir/ > total 3 > drwxr-xr-x 5 peterwu users 120 Jan 29 17:47 inbox > drwx------ 8 peterwu users 232 Feb 1 21:20 lists > drwx------ 5 peterwu users 120 Jan 29 17:52 postponed > drwx------ 5 peterwu users 120 Jan 29 17:51 sent > drwx------ 5 peterwu users 120 Jan 30 10:02 spam >
Use ls -la and you should see the mozilla folders. They are hidden files. > lists is a dir under which I had mailing lists archived. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] peterwu $ ls -l ~/.maildir/lists/ > total 3 > drwx------ 5 peterwu users 120 Jan 29 17:48 gentoo-user > drwx------ 5 peterwu users 120 Feb 1 18:07 mono-list > drwx------ 5 peterwu users 120 Feb 1 21:20 postfix-users > drwx------ 5 peterwu users 120 Feb 1 21:19 proftp-user > drwx------ 5 peterwu users 120 Jan 30 17:31 slrn-user > drwx------ 5 peterwu users 120 Jan 30 08:33 vim > > What I want to do is: > When I log in the IMAP server with my peterwu username/password, I should > be able to see everything under ~/.maildir/ from an IMAP client. In the > meantime, mutt should be still working as before on the Linux box. > > The /etc/courier-imap/imapd contains: > > #Hardwire a value for ${MAILDIR} > MAILDIR=.maildir > #Put any program for ${PRERUN} here > PRERUN= > > . What permissions should I put on those maildirs? > . How to delete the annoying Inbox and Inbox.Trash dirs added by Mozilla? > > If you need me to post more information, please let me know. Thanks in advance! I have a similar set up but mine looks like this: $ ls -al ~/.maildir drwx------ 15 mike users 488 Feb 2 19:16 . drwxr-xr-x 15 mike users 1408 Feb 2 19:41 .. drwx------ 5 mike users 152 Dec 12 21:49 .Drafts drwx------ 6 mike users 224 Dec 23 08:34 .Sent drwx------ 6 mike users 224 Dec 26 20:02 .Trash drwx------ 6 mike users 192 Dec 23 09:16 .lists drwx------ 6 mike users 240 Jan 31 06:20 .lists.clue-tech drwx------ 6 mike users 768 Feb 2 19:46 .lists.gentoo-user drwx------ 5 mike users 152 Oct 7 20:23 .lists.traffic drwx------ 6 mike users 224 Feb 2 19:36 .outbox drwx------ 6 mike users 224 Nov 26 13:28 .postponed drwx------ 2 mike users 48 Feb 2 13:14 courierimapkeywords -rw-r--r-- 1 mike users 64 Dec 12 21:53 courierimapsubscribed -rw-r--r-- 1 mike users 3151 Feb 2 19:16 courierimapuiddb drwx------ 2 mike users 4640 Feb 2 19:16 cur drwx------ 2 mike users 48 Feb 2 19:16 new drwx------ 2 mike users 48 Feb 2 19:42 tmp You probably want to change the maildir/path separater. I think there is an option for it can't recall right now. Will have to do some research. HTH Mike -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list