Subject: Re: qmail style directories and imap
From: Andy Firman (andy@firman.us)
Date: Sun Feb 01 2004 - 05:49:09 AKST
On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 05:56:58PM -0900, Jim Wadell wrote:
>
> After haveing my mail server choke because my inbox was too big, I have
> been investigating qmail type inboxes on my backup (read play) machine.
> I set it up, and sent mail. Got the resulting files in test users home dir:
>
> Maildir:
> cur/ new/ tmp/
>
> Maildir/cur:
>
> Maildir/new:
> 1075583622.V3007I1e486.samkat
>
> Maildir/tmp:
>
>
> Now I am flailing with uwimap to get it to understand the new (world?)
> order. In particular, I have the following to work with (from the docs:
> env_init() initialize c-client environment variables,
> especially the user name and home directory
> sysinbox() return the UNIX path of the INBOX in which
> mail delivery will place mail
> mailboxdir() translate a mailbox name into the associated
> UNIX directory for listing
> mailboxfile() translate a mailbox name into the associated
> UNIX file for opening
>
>
> My first cut is to point mailboxdir() at ~/Maildir.
> Anyone have any experience?
So you are tying to get uwimap to use Maildir style mailboxes?
It is not supported:
http://www.washington.edu/imap/IMAP-FAQs/index.html#1.31
Unless you are using some third party support.
Have you thought about using Courier-IMAP?
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