[imp] Problem with single uids

Jan Schneider jan@horde.org
Thu, 18 Oct 2001 12:06:14 +0200


Zitat von Kre Men <picoviny@hotmail.com>:

>    Ok, I'll try to explain. Single user UID mailboxes are used as an
> pop3/imap accounts for ppl with virtual hosts on the server. Instead of
> making them normal shell accounts, they all have one UID/GID, f.e. 777,
> under which are their mails stored in the special directory for that kind of
> mailboxes. This users, are experiencing that "INBOX. prefix" problems. Users
> with unique UID are OK. Well, I don't know whether this single UID's has
> something to do with this problem, but probably yes, because normal users
> are working fine. I've also noticed, that after sending mail from the IMP
> from single UID account, the Sent-mail folder isn't created.

Do you have any problems with other mail clients accessing these mailboxes?

>    Also, I would like to ask, whether it is possible to rename INBOX folder
> to Inbox, because after I defined it in the prefs and locked it out, there
> was no difference, inbox was still named INBOX.

The mailbox pref doesn't store the name of the "root" folder. INBOX is 
hardcoded in imp but as a gettext string.

Jan.

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