On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 20:06:02 +0200, John Allen <allen{at}vo{dot}lu> wrote:
> andreas a@t mrs d.t ch wrote:

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>> I have downloaded UW IMAP, but was not able to access/read any mail with
>> pine. As I understand, one has to tell the IMAP server where to read the
>> mailbox files. I read in the documentation that it's possible to change
>> the functions (definitions) where to read the mailbox files. But there
>> I'm lost.
>>
>> I tried some directories/files from my system and recompiled the server
>> but still wasn't able to read any mail.

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> UW-IMAP can work very well if your mailbox files are in the right
> place and (preferably) you are prepared to use mbx format. But the
> recommended way to change the mailbox location is to modify the source
> code and recompile - which isn't that difficult, but not everyone's
> idea of an easy configuration system.

You're right, it's not as easy as I thought it would be. But it looks
like it's my software that doesn't behave as expected (from a unix
standard configuration point of view). Compiling the software is no
problem for me, the difficult part will be to document the changes to
re-apply them for a system update. So I guess, that's why lots of
software can be configured with config files. They tend to survive
software updates.


> The normal mailbox locations are explained in the documentation files
> which come with the UW-IMAP package.

Well, if you know to look for /var/spool/mail/ you can find some entry
in the FAQ, but not as an answer to where the mailbox files are stored.
Anyway, is there some information on a mail setup under Linux (howto or
something else?)


> Otherwise I'd suggest looking at Dovecot, which has a much more
> flexible configuration system.

Thanks for your information. I'll look into Dovecot if I don't get
UW-IMAP running the next few days.


Thanks,
Andreas