[imp] Dumping mails on the users home directory

[Brent J. Nordquist]

On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Krishna <Krishna_shekhar at gmx.net> wrote:

> After setting this up , where do I configure in horde/imp to look for
> INBOX mails in the users home directory?

You don't.  This is entirely a function of your IMAP server (and you
didn't tell us which one you're using).

> I am using Horde/IMP CVS , with imapd. The mails of INBOX are in
> /var/mail and mails of other folders are in the users home directory.
> How can I get mails of INBOX to be in the users home directory.

If you're using the UW-IMAP server, you can compile it with a hack that
moves everything from /var/mail/xx to ~xx/mbox every time the user
connects... or you can choose a different storage driver... or you could
switch to a different IMAP server.

(Whatever you do, you'll have to make sure that your mail delivery
function (MDA) puts the mail where the IMAP server expects to find it.
You asked about procmail; some people use that as a solution.)

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