[imp] IMP changes for different IMAP directory structure

[Michael Redinger]

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Hm, maybe I don't really understand the problem ... two solutions seem
more obvious to me:

- - use $default-folders and $imapuser right in the defaults.php file -
  this should work, right?
  $default->folders = '/home/imap/' . $imapuser;


- - patch the IMAP server. Eg. we patched our (UW) server sothat the users
  don't have to specify 'Mail/' in their mail clients configurations.
  IMHO this is a more consistent approach to your problem - not only IMP
  but also other mail clients would benefit from this.


Cheers,

Michael Redinger


On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Andreas Matthias wrote:

> Hello,
>
> at our university we have an IMAP configuration where each user
> has a mail directory under /home/imap/<username>, but this is NOT their
> home directory (!). IMP 2.2.5 (which we are using) seems not to be able
> to handle this situation, so we had to patch some things to get it
> working.
>
> Here is a list of the necessary changes; they were made in a quite
> quick-and-dirty fashion; a future version of IMP should perhaps rather
> define a "$defaults->mailhome" variable, and, in case this is nonempty,
> prepend this to each path that is requested from the IMAP server.
>
> I'm not sending a diff, because I don't have the original files any more.
> But the changes are minor and straightforward.
>
> ------------ horde/imp/folders.php3 ------------
>     74          case CREATE_FOLDER:
>     75                  if ($new_mailbox) {
>     76                          $new_mailbox = imap_utf7_encode($new_mailbox);
>     77                          // Changed a.m. for hrz kassel imap */
>     78                          $new_mailbox = '/home/imap/' . $imp->user . '/'
>     78  . $new_mailbox;
>     79                          // -- ende
>
> [...]
>
>     92          case RENAME_FOLDER:
>     93                  if (!empty($old_mailbox) && !empty($new_mailbox)) {
>     94                          $old_mailbox = imap_utf7_encode($old_mailbox);
>     95                          $new_mailbox = imap_utf7_encode($new_mailbox);
>     96                          // Changed a.m. for hrz kassel imap */
>     97                          $new_mailbox = '/home/imap/' . $imp->user . '/'
>     97  . $new_mailbox;
>     98                          // -- ende
>
> [...]
> -------------------------------------------------
>
> We do not support subscribing of folders, so these parts are unchanged.
>
> ------------ horde/imp/compose.php3 ------------
>    716          case POSTPONE_MESSAGE:
>    717                  $preamble = $imp->folders . $default->personal_folders;
>    718
>    719                  // Changed HRZ Kassel by a.m. 6.AUG.01
>    720                  // $copyto = imap_utf7_encode($preamble . $default->post
>    720  poned);
>    721                  $copyto = imap_utf7_encode("/home/imap/" . $imp->user .
>    721  "/" . $default->postponed);
>    722                  // a.m. changes end
>
> -------------------------------------------------
>
> ... and the same should be done for the sent-Folder, which we also don't
> support.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andreas Matthias

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