[imp] mailbox prefix problem

[Terry Davis]

Well.  I recompiled so the mailbox dir directive is $home/mail  rather 
than just $home as it is by default.
For imp I tried enterning the following as mail box prefixes:
./
./mail/
mail/
mail

none of them worked.  I do get in and can view my current email just 
fine.  Just when I try to go look at my folders it doesn't
pull any of them up as if I dont have any.   It gets this list from the 
.mailboxlist file?  I moved all of those into the mail directory
because that's what netscape and outlook want. 

Brent J. Nordquist wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Terry Davis <tdavis@birddog.com> wrote:
> 
>> I recompiled so that it used the mail subdirectory of the users home
>> directory.
> 
> 
> Most people use the mail prefix for this; here we use "mail/" as that
> prefix in all mail clients (including IMP).  (If you do it that way,
> .mailboxlist stays at the top of the home directory.)
> 
>> Imap by itself with netscape/outlook as a client
>> works fine.  However, when I login via imp I can no longer see the
>> folders.
> 
> 
> You're sure the mail prefix matches between IMP and your other IMAP
> client?  If you've recompiled UW-IMAP then I suppose the mail prefix
> should be blank in all cases... but it depends on what you did.
> 

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