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Date:      Mon, 24 Dec 2001 10:52:10 +0500 (YEKT)
From:      =?koi8-r?B?6czY0SD7ydDJw8nO?= <ilia@chel.skbkontur.ru>
To:        Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.ORG, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: numerous IMAP questions...
Message-ID:  <20011224105100.N54706-100000@sol.chel.skbkontur.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20011224161257.A57370@grimoire.chen.org.nz>

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Salut, Jonathan Chen !

On Mon, 24 Dec 2001, Jonathan Chen wrote:

> The "mbox driver" allows imap-uw to recognise UNIX mailboxes which
> live in /var/mail. The "moved ... from mbox" is some weird imap-uw
> `feature' that will move mail from /var/mail to ~/mbox *if* it sees a
> ~/mbox. If you don't want this, all you have to do is to move all the
> mail from ~/mbox to /var/mail/user. ie:
>
>     1. make sure imapd is stopped
>     2. make sure /var/mail/user is 0 bytes
>     3. mv ~/mbox /var/mail/user

I saw those messages when there was no file ~user/mbox.
that file appears and disappears at nobody's will :)

>
> At which point when imap-uw starts up again, it will use
> /var/mail/user as the INBOX and won't attempt to move mail out of it.
> --
> Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>                                 Don't worry about avoiding temptation,
>                             as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
>

Regards, (=EE=C1=C9=CC=D5=DE=DB=C9=C5 =D0=CF=D6=C5=CC=C1=CE=C9=D1)
Ilia Chipitsine (=E9=CC=D8=D1 =FB=C9=D0=C9=C3=C9=CE)


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