[imp] Accounts with no INBOX

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting R Phillips <R.I.Phillips at bath.ac.uk>:

> IMP version 5.0.14
>
> We have some accounts here with the slightly atypical setup where they
> don't have mailboxes but access shared mailboxes.  It arises from
> needing accounts with an annual rotation of users but needing a
> consistent contact point (eg society-president, the contact address has
> an alias).  How this is relevant is that the mail account for the
> username does not have an INBOX.  On it's own this would create the
> "IMAP error: Mailbox does not exist" message, but with a shared mailbox
> this produces a HTTP 500 error.

Your server is not IMAP4rev1 compatible.  The existence of an INBOX is  
the #1 essential requirement of an IMAP 4 installation.

You will have to hack IMP yourself if you are going to use IMAP in a  
way it was not designed to (IMP REQUIRES an IMAP4rev1 compatible  
server).

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at horde.org]