Re: IMAP default mailbox in user's home dir
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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Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@debian.org>
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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