Re: Problem working with uw-imapd

[Rob Walker <rob@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hans-Christian,

>> On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 14:33:45 +0200, Hans-Christian Prytz
>> <hp@xxxxxxxxx> said:

   > 1) the imapd exports the whole homedir, so in order to locate
   >    mailboxes
   > I should set "reference = Mail" if I have the extra mailboxes under
   > ~/Mail, right?  If I do that all the mailboxes under ~/Mail gets
   > downloaded, but not INBOX. As seems to be the standerd, INBOX is a
   > special case, and is stored partly in /var/spool/mail/<username>
   > (for new mails) and ~/mbox for seen mail. Every other IMAP
   > mailreader gets INBOX even though I set prefix (or whatever it's
   > called in that mailprogram) to ~/Mail. Is there are way to get
   > OfflineIMAP to do this?

I had the same problem with INBOX, so I used a symlink to get around it.
In my home directory, there is now /home/rob/Mail/INBOX, which is a
symlink to /var/mail/rob

This seems to work fine.

   > 1a) I have found a way to solve the above (sort of). If I dont set
   > "reference = Mail" (ie. comment it out) and set "folderfilter =
   > lambda foldername: re.search('(^INBOX$|^Mail/)', foldername)" I get
   > INBOX and the filders under ~/Mail downloaded to the local
   > machine. Will this interfare somehow with syncing? The reason I ask
   > is my second problem.

That's cool, I wish I had thought of that.

- Rob