[imp] FW: uw-2001c and folders problem

[Gary Smith]

Thanks for the quick reply.

By root I do indeed mean their home dir.  I do notice that folders created in imp under imps root end up in the mail/ directory but as a file as you mentioned.  When I create a new folder under inbox a new foldee called INBOX is created under the users home dir and the file is placed under there.

Clearly this is the main problem that I'm encountering.  We have 90 users with folder heiarchys that nest 3 folders deep in some cases. 

Is there a better solution to my problem?  We use uw-2001c because it has the drac patch applied and we have used it before.

Thanks,

Gary Smit

-----Original Message-----
    From: "Joseph Brennan"<brennan at columbia.edu>
    Sent: 7/16/03 12:12:41 PM
    To: "imp at lists.horde.org"<imp at lists.horde.org>
    Subject: Re: [imp] FW: uw-2001c and folders problem
      
    > I have been asking this question on google to no avail.  I have IMP 3.2
    > installed and operation with uw-2001c.  Most features work fine with the
    > exception of the folders.  I can create a sub folder under root just
    > fine.  I cannot create a subfolder under the inbox or any other subfolder.
    
    Welcome to UW imap where "folder" sometimes means "file" and
    sometimes means "directory".  Users supoosedly do not need
    to know how mail is stored in the black box, but actually they
    do need to know.
    
    At least IMP shows you what they are.  It puts a little manila
    folder for directories and  a little tray for the files.  And
    Inbox has a different tray symbol because it is special.
    
    Inbox is the magic name of the place new mail goes.  In UW imap
    it is a file and you cannot make files inside files.  You make
    the other mail folders under what the server considers the user's
    home directory, possibly collected in a subdirectory like the
    popular names mail or Mail.
    
    By "root" I hope you meant the user's home directory.
    
    In IMP, if you create a folder whose name ends with "/", you get
    a directory.  If it has no "/" you get a file.  If it has "/"
    somewhere in the middle, e.g. "alpha/beta", it creates directory
    alpha if it does not exist yet and creates file beta in it.
    
    Joseph Brennan         Columbia University in the City of New York
    Academic Technologies Group                   brennan at columbia.edu
    
    
    
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