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Re: New imap saves all mail to $HOME/mbox ????



Alexander Stavitsky wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 03:25:53AM -0400, Alexander Stavitsky wrote:
> > > Since I installed imap 4.1.BETA-1 every time I access my mailbox by IMAP
> > > it dissapears. Actually everything is saved in $HOME/mbox and mail
> > > spool file is empty.
> 
> > What mail client are you using?  Have you changed it recently?  I think it
> > would be more responsible for where your mail goes than imapd itself.
> 
> I use fetchmail and I do not think I upgraded it recently, although I
> might be wrong. This happens even if I telnet to port 143 and just check
> how many messages I have. Besides, imap server still counts those in mbox
> as messages. It looks like it concatenates mbox and /var/spool/mail/$USER
> when showing user's INBOX. That's why I think it's impa problem, not
> client problem.

Nutscrape takes a look at every file/directory in your home dir and
treats it
as a mailbox.. :(

Tim


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