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This uw-imapd specific
Authored by: acdha on Feb 17, '03 02:43:58PM

This is a side-effect of the way uw-imap works. It only supprts mbox-format mailboxes and thus has no way of determing whether something is a mailbox without opening the file to see. They took the lazy way out of simply showing everything in the home directory.

Whether your mail shows up in the default home directory, some place like ~/Mail or /var/spool/mail depends on your server config. Note that any decent IMAP server can tell Mail.app what to use for the prefix, so this isn't necessary unless you're using uw-imapd.

As a side note, uw-imapd is extremely inefficient. Switching to a better imap server like Cyrus or Courier which uses something other than mbox to store mail will be significantly faster with larger mailboxes and has the side-effect of not needing to worry about this sort of thing as the modern IMAP servers correctly send their namespaces.



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