Isn't it that Netscape Messenger should ONLY look at my mailbox (thru
IMAP) which is in /var/spool/mail/ directory not on any of my folders in
my home directory.
On Wed, 20 May 1998, Fred Whipple wrote:
> In Messenger's preferences, you can set your server IMAP directory. So,
> if you wanted your remote IMAP folders to be in, say,
> /home/fwwhippl/.imap_remote you would set that to be the server IMAP
> directory. On the other hand, if you set nothing, it lets the server
> put you where ever it wants, and of course being a UNIX system, after
> having authenticated, the IMAP process likely puts you into your home
> directory. So, if Messenger then asks to see a folder list in the IMAP
> folder, and the IMAP folder is (by default) your home directory, that's
> what you get.
>
> On the server side, I made a directory called:
>
> /home/fwwhippl/.netscape/imap_remote
>
> and set that directory as my server IMAP folder on the client side. Of
> course it's empty, so I have no folders showing. If I made any folders
> via Netscape, or in the directory structure on the host machine, they
> would show up as folders.
>
> Hope this helps.
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