Re: [Cooker] Re: Re: Re: Re: [CHRPM] imap-2002d-3mdk

[Luca Berra]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 07:44:44PM -0400, Stew Benedict wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, David Walser wrote:
> > >>>>imap shouldn't use $HOME/Mail because other apps use that (Kmail etc).  $HOME/mail might be safe.
> Guiseppe and I discussed this on IRC.  I'm thinking it's probably safest 
> for imapd to use it's own namespace, .uwmail or Mailuw or something, 
> rather than try to use mail, Mail etc. which have been historically used 
> by a number of local mail clients. It would be handy to be able to share 
> the folders, but given that there's no guarantee what might be found 
> there, probably safest not to use them.
i do not agree
~/Mail and/or ~/mail have been historically used to store mbox formatted
folders (the latter was introduced by pine IIRC), ~/Maildir was added
when maildir was invented to store maildir folders.

If uw/dovecot use ~/Mail expecting to find mbox files and ~/Maildir for
maildir it's ok with me.

switching to .uwmail will annoy all the people that are used to sharing
folders between imap and a local MUA.

> To deal with the migration issue, existing installations won't change, 
> only fresh installs.  We'll leave it to the system admin to make the 
> change, if they wish to.
you mean leaving uw defaulted in ~?
tossing uw and using dovecot defaulted in ~?
or something else?

L.

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