[Imap-uw] mail moved from /var/spool/mail/username to ~username/mbox , only for some users?

[Kevin Long]

Thank you for the response.

Does ~/mbox need to have any data in it to be valid?  I have tried 
creating a blank file ~/mbox  by doing "echo > mbox" and make sure it is 
chown to the user, but this did not make the mail copy to this file from 
/var/spool/mail when an IMAPd connection is made.

Regards,

Kevin Long



On 4/13/2011 12:32 PM, Yiorgos Adamopoulos wrote:

> Your binaries were compiled with

>

> EXTRADRIVERS=mbox

>

> This means that if ~/mbox exists, then whenever a program linked with

> c-client (like imapd, ipop3d, alpine) accesses the mail spool

> (/var/mail/username) mail is copied from there to ~/mbox. The

> combination of those two files is INBOX. If ~/mbox does not exist,

> then mail is processed as expected.


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