IMAP default mailbox in user's home dir

1999-06-22 Thread Rigacci 
I'm setting an IMAP server for math students. I wish the user mailbox to
be in each home directory, so quota can prevent someone filling the
/var/spool/mail. 

I yet configured smail and pine to search for the user inbox in
${HOME}/mail/inbox file. In the same mail directory Pine creates its
folders. 

The IMAP server (imap 4.4-4) is OK to store folders in ${HOME}/mail/ but
it insists on searching /var/spool/mail/${USER} for the inbox. 

I have two questions:

1) Is it possible to change imap without recompiling it? I read a lot of
warning for using a configuration file. 

2) Is there a Debian policy about mail in user's home directory? 


Niccolo Rigacci
Firenze - Italy

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Re: IMAP default mailbox in user's home dir

1999-06-22 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx 
On Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 12:23:51PM +0200, Rigacci wrote:

> The IMAP server (imap 4.4-4) is OK to store folders in ${HOME}/mail/ but
> it insists on searching /var/spool/mail/${USER} for the inbox. 

This isn't a "real solution", but, will IMAP accept a sym link in 
/var/spool/mail/${USER} ==> ${HOME}/mail/inbox ???  

HTH,
Jon
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Re: IMAP default mailbox in user's home dir

1999-06-22 Thread Dpk 
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Rigacci wrote:

   I'm setting an IMAP server for math students. I wish the user
   mailbox to be in each home directory, so quota can prevent someone
   filling the /var/spool/mail.
   
   I yet configured smail and pine to search for the user inbox in
   ${HOME}/mail/inbox file. In the same mail directory Pine creates
   its folders.
   
   The IMAP server (imap 4.4-4) is OK to store folders in
   ${HOME}/mail/ but it insists on searching /var/spool/mail/${USER}
   for the inbox.
   
   I have two questions:
   
   1) Is it possible to change imap without recompiling it? I read a
   lot of warning for using a configuration file.
   
   2) Is there a Debian policy about mail in user's home directory?
   
I know this isn't one of your questions, but why not give each user
disk quota in the directory /var/spool/mail?  This would avoid
questions 1 & 2.

Dennis
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Re: IMAP default mailbox in user's home dir

1999-06-22 Thread Leszek Gerwatowski 
On Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 08:53:04AM -0400, Dpk wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Rigacci wrote:
> 
>I have two questions:
>
>1) Is it possible to change imap without recompiling it? I read a
>lot of warning for using a configuration file.
>
>2) Is there a Debian policy about mail in user's home directory?
>
> I know this isn't one of your questions, but why not give each user
> disk quota in the directory /var/spool/mail?  This would avoid
> questions 1 & 2.
> 

I'm not the one who was asking but I can answer this question from my point
of view (I also think about quota restrictions to my users):

I want to give 5MB total disk space per user. So as I understand qouta
mechanism I cannon check if it's OK when I've two quotas on two
filesystems. Each user should have all his/her files in $HOME (mail
folders, WWW files etc.). What will happen when I want 5MB limit and user
will have 3MB inbox on first filesystem and 4MB mail/WWW files in $HOME?
For me the only solution is to have all users' files in $HOME.

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Re: IMAP default mailbox in user's home dir

1999-06-22 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas 
If there is a file called $HOME/mail/mbox, imapd will use
that as the inbox.  Actually this is a bug (report #33780) it should look 
in $HOME/mbox but I haven't quite figured out how to do that yet.

To answer your questions,

1) The config file is unsupported and can break between versions.  The
author highly recommends you don't use it.

2)  There isn't.

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On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Rigacci wrote:

> I'm setting an IMAP server for math students. I wish the user mailbox to
> be in each home directory, so quota can prevent someone filling the
> /var/spool/mail. 
> 
> I yet configured smail and pine to search for the user inbox in
> ${HOME}/mail/inbox file. In the same mail directory Pine creates its
> folders. 
> 
> The IMAP server (imap 4.4-4) is OK to store folders in ${HOME}/mail/ but
> it insists on searching /var/spool/mail/${USER} for the inbox. 
> 
> I have two questions:
> 
> 1) Is it possible to change imap without recompiling it? I read a lot of
> warning for using a configuration file. 
> 
> 2) Is there a Debian policy about mail in user's home directory? 
> 
> 
> Niccolo Rigacci
> Firenze - Italy
> 
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> 
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