[tech] Re: imap

[James Andrewartha]

On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, James Andrewartha wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Alastair Irvine wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 28 March, 2003 at 03:59:57PM +0800, Michael Deegan wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > imap (and imaps) appears to be broken on mooneye:
> > > 
> > [snip successful login]
> > > 0 OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4REV1 X-NETSCAPE NAMESPACE MAILBOX-REFERRALS SCAN SORT THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT MULTIAPPEND] User michael authenticated
> > > 1 LIST "" ""
> > > 
> > > Nothing happens after the LIST command is issued.
> > 
> > I also tried this and didn't get anything listed.  Can someone please have
> > a look at the IMAP setup on mooneye?
> 
> It's fine. However, it does tend to index your entire home directory when
> you issue the LIST command. To avoid this, create a .imaprc according to
> /usr/share/doc/libc-client2003-debian/imaprc.txt.gz, specifically with the
> option 'set mail-subdirectory'.

Oh, and please try this out on mussel, so you can kill your imapd
processes (they hang around, and if you leave them on mooneye, mail stops
being delivered).

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