Making UW imapd store mail in the Library.

[Anonymous]

Hi, I have installed postfix and UWimapd on my 10.2 client machine, per the tutorial on this site, and everything worked fine. Only complaint is that an imap user that logs in with mail.app sees the entire contents of their home folder. I’d rather imapd kept it’s mail in ~/Library/Mail/. The problem could be that I’m using the client and not the server, but there should be a way to configure imapd to work around this. I hear from other tutes that the only way to configure imapd is by editing the code before compilation. Anyone know what part I need to edit to get the desired results? Any help will be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Simpolman

[tomster]

perhaps this can help you: i’m running the uw imapd on a linux box with several clients using Mail.app (as well es outlook on pc and entourage)

what i did (rather than re-compile imapd, which is in fact the only other way) is create a directory (“mail”) in each homedirectory and then set up each client to use that directory as starting point.

in Mail.app you would use the ‘IMAP Path Prefix’ option in the ‘Advanced Tab’ of the mail account preferences.

so imapd still writes directly to the homedirectory, except that the clients tell it to do so only in ‘mail’. telling imapd once is of course the more elegant solution, than telling every client what to do, but it is a lot more easy 😉

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