Our mailsubdir is set to mail/ as well and we have the exact same problem
as you.
There was a thread in the archives where you can modify the source code so
that it recognizes either the mail/ prefix or no prefix setting in a user's
mail client. In fact, there were two examples of changes you can make.
Either way, it will always know to look in the mail/ subdirectory. That's
what I ended up doing. If you need me to send you my modifications,
please let me know.
The only bug I found, which I havn't had time to figure out how to fix yet,
is how it affects our webmail server. Our webmail server renames the
sent-mail folder every month, and has the default mail root set to "mail/".
For some reason, this caused a problem when our webmail software tried to
renamed the folder.
thanks
nancy
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David Severance wrote:
We would like to be able to preset mailsubdir to "mail" to prevent the
endless stream of support calls by people who get it wrong in their
client setup (i.e. Thunderbird->Account Settings->Server
Settings->Advanced->IMAP server directory). I see that I can edit
src/osdep/unix/env_unix.c and set this var:
static char *mailsubdir = "mail"; /* mailbox subdirectory name */
but I don't see a way to enforce this setting by ignoring the
(frequently) wrong setting that an end user might specify. Other than in
env_unix.c I did not run across this var in other files that I found so
I'm not sure how it's getting set in the first place. Is there some
setting I can specify or recommended edit that would force the use of
the value I desired regardless of the client setting?
Any guidance would be appreciated.
thanks,
David
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