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Date:      Fri, 22 Sep 2000 08:22:50 +0800 (PHT)
From:      "Francis A. Vidal" <francis@usls.edu>
To:        Troy Settle <troy@psknet.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Default IMAP INBOX to $HOME/Mailbox
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009220821151.40662-100000@atlas.usls.edu>
In-Reply-To: <BFEGKDHLHDNOJEIHJDBAMECACAAA.troy@psknet.com>

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Hi Troy,

I changed my patch file to something similar to yours but I still
can't make it work. I'm using the latest UW-IMAP package from the
ports tree (imap-4.7c2).

---- Quoting Troy Settle's message, sent 09/21/00 7:54pm ----

> Francis,
> 
> You've almost got it.
> 
> Here's what I've got in production right now:
> 
> --- src/osdep/unix/env_unix.c.orig	Thu Sep 21 22:56:39 2000
> +++ src/osdep/unix/env_unix.c	Thu Sep 21 22:57:02 2000
> @@ -642,7 +642,7 @@
>  {
>    char tmp[MAILTMPLEN];
>    if (!sysInbox) {		/* initialize if first time */
> -    sprintf (tmp,"%s/%s",MAILSPOOL,myusername ());
> +    sprintf (tmp,"%s/%s",myhomedir(),".mail");
>      sysInbox = cpystr (tmp);	/* system inbox is from mail spool */
>    }
>    return sysInbox;
> 
> 
> --
>   Troy Settle
>   Pulaski Networks
>   540.994.4254
> 
> It's always a long day, 86400 doesn't fit into a short
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Francis A.
> > Vidal
> > Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 7:44 PM
> > To: FreeBSD Questions
> > Subject: Default IMAP INBOX to $HOME/Mailbox
> >
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've created a patch (from one of the tutorials online) for IMAP 4.7c2
> > to make the default INBOX to $HOME/Mailbox rather than
> > /var/mail/<username>:
> >
> > --- src/osdep/unix/env_unix.c.orig	Thu Sep 21 22:56:39 2000
> > +++ src/osdep/unix/env_unix.c	Thu Sep 21 22:57:02 2000
> > @@ -642,7 +642,7 @@
> >  {
> >    char tmp[MAILTMPLEN];
> >    if (!sysInbox) {		/* initialize if first time */
> > -    sprintf (tmp,"%s/%s",MAILSPOOL,myusername ());
> > +    sprintf (tmp,"%s/%s",myHomeDir,"/Mailbox");
> >      sysInbox = cpystr (tmp);	/* system inbox is from mail spool */
> >    }
> >    return sysInbox;
> >
> > This patches cleanly on my system but IMAP still reads the INBOX from
> > /var/mail/<username>! I've also tried the suggestion from the IMAP
> > documentation but that also failed.

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