[imp] Mail Folder Location

Alan Kong kkkong@ee.cuhk.edu.hk
Tue, 11 Sep 2001 16:07:44 +0800


I found the folders now. It the folders were not prepended  a "/",  hte 
folder name will be prepended with "mailFOLDERNAME'" and kept in the 
home directory of users.

Thanks for your  help.


Regards
Alan

Alan Kong wrote:

> No. Isnt it you config. the default IMAP folder in 
> imp/config/defaults.php3? I'm running uw-imap though.
>
> I have config. "$default->folders = 'mail';" so that any folders 
> created as "/myfolder" will stay in the "mail" directory. But now I 
> couldn't find the where about of my folder if I created as "myfolder" 
> without the slash.
>
> Pls help.
>
> Regards
> Alan
>
> Terry Davis wrote:
>
>> I am confused but I will take a stab.
>> :)
>>
>> Your imp server decides where the new folder is to go on the 
>> filesystem.  For
>> uw-imap, you have to compile this in to change it from the users's home
>> directory, $HOME. 
>> So in other words, more than likely, when you create a folder it is 
>> created
>> like:
>> /home/$user/$new_folder
>>
>> Is this what you are asking?
>>
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