The right way is to use tmail and/or dmail for delivery. I regret ever putting in code into mbx format that accounts for the spool in STATUS. My punishment for this ill-considered effort to be helpful was bug reports from individuals who were upset that spool messages did not show up in EXAMINE of a mix INBOX. Snarfing is a write operation; the whole point of EXAMINE is to be strictly read-only.
I learned the lesson and did not repeat that mistake in mix. If you choose to copy the code from mbx into mix, it may "work" for you; that is, until you get someone who complains about EXAMINE. Oh, and there's other issues having to do with UIDs; the mbx STATUS code makes a guess since it does not (can not) actually know the real results when a snarf does happen. There is just no way to do snarfing in a perfectly transparent fashion. Snarfing is best seen as a short-term interim measure for transition prior to the deployment of tmail and/or dmail for delivery; and as such is somewhat kludgy and clanky. The good news is that dmail and tmail work quite well with traditional UNIX mailbox files. You have to build with CREATEPROTO=mixproto to force the creation of mix-format INBOX; otherwise it will deliver to the spool file for a user who does not have a mix-format INBOX (of course it will deliver to the mix-format INBOX if it exists). -- Mark -- http://panda.com/mrc Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote. > Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:52:05 -0700 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: imap-uw@u.washington.edu > Subject: [Imap-uw] mix format doesn't check sysinbox for status > > we recently noticed that squirrelmail wasn't seeing new messages after > users were converted to mix. tracking down what is going on, i see that > squirrelmail sends a status command and under mix, that doesn't take the > system spool into account. the mbx driver has code to count both on a > status. > > is this an oversight? it looks like we could probably copy the logic of > mbx_status and turn it into mix_status. or is the "right way" to use > tmail for delivery? > _______________________________________________ > Imap-uw mailing list > Imap-uw@u.washington.edu > http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/imap-uw _________________________________________________________________ See how Windows connects the people, information, and fun that are part of your life. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/msnnkwxp1020093175mrt/direct/01/_______________________________________________ Imap-uw mailing list Imap-uw@u.washington.edu http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/imap-uw
