[Pine-info] UW-IMAP question: IMAP inbox path (alternate path, mbx, mix)

[Stefan Bertels]

Hi,

Is there a possibility to change the INBOX path for IMAP at runtime? (I 
know I could patch the source.)

I have ~mail/INBOX as my personal INBOX and have added this folder to 
incoming collection in (al)pine. But this way it seems to be a somewhat 
regular folder and not the real IMAP inbox.

I do not want to symlink the /var/mail/<username> to 
~<username>/mail/INBOX because ~mail/INBOX is in mbx format and changing 
/var/mail/<username> to mbx might result in data loss (I cannot 
guarantee that there is no software that uses /var/mail/<username> as 
default mbox file).

It's ok that the local mail software and POP3 uses /var/mail/<username> 
as INBOX. I just want the IMAP server to look in ~mail/INBOX. Ideally 
this should be configurable per user (per system should work for now, 
too.)

What's the deal with mix mailbox format? ~mail/INBOX will be a folder 
then, anyway (so I really cannot create a symlink for 
/var/mail/<username>).

Best regards
Stefan