Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 16:12:57 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Il%j Sipicin <ilia@chel.skbkontur.ru> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: numerous IMAP questions... Message-ID: <20011224161257.A57370@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <20011223144012.T713-100000@sol.chel.skbkontur.ru>; from ilia@chel.skbkontur.ru on Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 02:43:52PM %2B0500 References: <20011223144012.T713-100000@sol.chel.skbkontur.ru>
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On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 02:43:52PM +0500, Il%j Sipicin wrote:
> Well,
>
> 1) is there an alternative for imap-uw ?
There's Courier IMAP, but the folders it creates are MH mailboxes (ie
files & directories) instead of UNIX-mailfolders (ie one file containing
several emails).
> 2) how to make imap-uw more verbose ?
>
> 3) how to run imap-uw without inetd ?
>
> 4) do I really need an "mbox" driver ?
> (I permanently see "moved XXX bytes from mbox..." and
> "moved XXX bytes to mbox...")
The "mbox driver" allows imap-uw to recognise UNIX mailboxes which
live in /var/mail. The "moved ... from mbox" is some weird imap-uw
`feature' that will move mail from /var/mail to ~/mbox *if* it sees a
~/mbox. If you don't want this, all you have to do is to move all the
mail from ~/mbox to /var/mail/user. ie:
1. make sure imapd is stopped
2. make sure /var/mail/user is 0 bytes
3. mv ~/mbox /var/mail/user
At which point when imap-uw starts up again, it will use
/var/mail/user as the INBOX and won't attempt to move mail out of it.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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