Re: [cobalt-users] IMAP - Where is the Mail Folders root directory configured

["[RaQ2] Chuck" <nagy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Malcolm McLeary wrote:

> Hi Chuck,
> 
> On 20/6/00 5:40 AM, [RaQ2] Chuck <nagy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> >> >where is the Mail Folders root directory configured so I can set it
> >> > correctly?
> >> 
> >
> >For incoming mesages: /var/spool/mail/[login]
> >For stored messages:  /home/sites/siteX/users/[login]/mail
> >                  or  ~[login]/mail
> >[login] is the userID like "admin" (the above path is not right for the
> >"admin" user.) 
> >
> >The second is the one you need to tell IMAP if you use pine. If you use
> >netscape (unlikely on a Raq) it would be nsmail instead of mail.
> 
> This isn't the answer I need.
> Something has gone astray.
> I need to know what config file controls imapd.

Imapd has no control over the mailbox path. The mail client has. You can
configure it on a per user basis.

The paths I gave you are the most common ones. If you have mail that ended
up in a wrong directory, you can 

mv ~user/wrongdir ~user/mail

and tell Outlook (but you shouldn't really use it) to look in "mail" and
see if it makes it any happier.

See also the previous message in this thread...