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Re: Bug#111210: User's home directory vulnerable: review setting of HOME directory for imap



On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Alex Blewitt wrote:

> Thanks; I tried that, but with no success. It seems that in the version of
> IMAP that comes with Debian 2.2 (IMAP 4.7c), it is not possible to set a
> user's mail-subdirectory. It may be the case that later releases support it,
> but it doesn't seem likely.

Actually both 4.7c and later releases do support it.  But it doesn't work
very well.  That and the fact it is unsupported by upstream is the reason
I didn't mention it.  Recompiling is the way to go.

> According to the Debian state of woody, the same
> version (4.7c) is used for that as well.
>

You're probably looking at the wrong package names.  In woody/sid, they
are uw-imapd and uw-imapd-ssl.   I'm tracking the latest upstream version
(imap 2001)

-- 
Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@debian.org>



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