On Fri, 21 Oct 2016, Steffen Nurpmeso steffen-at-sdaoden.eu |s-nail| wrote: > Disclaimer: i never used IMAP as an employee or whatever, > i installed a local dovecot and went ahead, only with S-nail and > Heirloom mailx, so i have _no idea_ what other MUAs do to hide (or > don't hide) the IMAP standard "INBOX". My test account now has > > set folder=imap://user1@localhost/Mail > set inbox=+ > > And that ends up in INBOX, i think this is right?
That doesn't work for me. I get IMAP error: Mailbox doesn't exist: Mail/INBOX The reason, I think, is that on the server I have had problems with, there is no INBOX file in the Mail subdirectory. The server is a general purpose linux machine running openSUSE 42.1, with lots of users. Each user has a Mail subdirectory containing their mbox, trash, etc. folders, but their inbox, the place where mail is initially delivered, is in some system spool directory, like /var/spool/mail/username. (A curious by-product of this arrangement is that users have huge mail quotas, larger than their file quotas.) I have never configured dovecot myself, but from what you say, it sounds as if you have set it up to make your inbox be a file called INBOX in your own Mail directory. The administrators of the server I am using have done it differently. That's all ok in 14.8.14, because I can specify set inbox=imaps://username@servername/INBOX to identify my inbox, wherever they have put it. So just keep it this way and you won't hear from me on the subject again, which will undoubtedly be a relief to the other readers of this list. Stephen Isard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot __________________________________ [email protected]
