[TriLUG] imapd configuration and documentation

[Kevin - The Alchemist - Sonney]

On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 01:38, elliot peele wrote:
> i am trying to setup imapd that come with redhat linux 7.2 and have been
> unable to find any good documentation on how to do this. the man page just
> explains what imapd is and the info page is that same.

I used to do this (before I discovered Evolution) with my laptop. Just
not with ncsu's broken IMAP servers. 

> i have gotten imapd to the point that i can check the contents of my
> inbox, but i can't create any sub-folders. i'm not sure if this is a
> configureation issue or a permissions issue. i can't find anything that
> was installed with imad that might resemble a configuration file.

The trick here is what you've set the "mail root" path on your client
to. If you've installed imap-2000c-15 (the default version that comes
with RHL 7.2), your default mail path is $HOME. If you're like me, you
don't *WANT* your mail folders in $HOME, but in $HOME/mail/. 

So what to do?

ssh user at mailhost
mkdir mail
chmod 700 mail
mv [mailfolder name] mail
exit

[open mail client]
[go to settings[
[client specific setting for over-riding the server folder name [1]]
[set above to "mail/"]

So now you're able to create folders to save mail to, right? Well, the
bad news is a *LOT* of mail clients don't support creating sub-folders
(i.e. friends/alchemist or lists/TriLUG). Check to see if there's a
setting for that in the mail client configuration. if not, you get to do
it manually, like so :

ssh user at mailhost
cd mail/
mkdir lists
exit

Once you've created a subdirectory in mial/, you can restart your mail
client and it will see that the subdir exists, and let you create mail
folder underneath it [2]. 

Anyway, I hope this helps. if you need more information, just ask, and
if I've said anything wildly wrong, I'm sure I'll get corrected *grin*


[1] Nobody has a standard way of saying this, or doing this. Some
clients use a checkbox and a text input, other just have a text input,
while others actually default to "mail/" - go figure.
[2] Sometimes ou need to create an empty folder underneath that - with
say "touch" - touch mail/lists/trilug - before you can save mail to it.
And don't forget - if your client supports "only show subscribed
folders" you'll have to make sure the new folder(s) are subscribed to.

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