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imap issues
Authored by: Alex281 on Jul 28, '02 12:58:18PM
The entire thing went smoothly... until I got to setting up imap. I downloaded the source, compiled it, copied imapd to its directory. When I got to the lines:
%sudo ./imap.sh %sudo ./mailbox.sh username
it says files not found. I tried looking and searching for the files but i don't see them. I tried to connect through imap anyway and it displays my entire home directory contents! What did I do wrong here?

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imap issues
Authored by: CaptCosmic on Jul 28, '02 02:01:09PM

This behavior is actually normal. By default, IMAP uses your home directory to store all of its folders, and Mail.app reads the entire contents of the directory as mail folders.

To get around this, you can go into Mail.app's Account settings. For the account on your machine, choose the Account Options tab, and set the Account Path Prefix to something like Mail_Folders. This will cause Mail.app to look in a directory called Mail_Folders in your home directory. Just be sure to create this folder first.

Now, when you open up the account in Mail.app, you'll see just the inbox, and any folders you have created.



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imap issues
Authored by: fivefifty on Jul 28, '02 05:26:44PM

Sorry, this has to do with it being written in hindsight. Read the other comment someone else wrote for the reason your whole home directory shows up. As for the missing shell scripts, this is due to the tutorial I followed as a basis contained those extra shell scripts, that weren't part of the imap package.



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