Subject: Cross-platform Pine/IMAP problem...

From: [email-masked] (Randy Zagar)
Date: 7 Oct 1994 17:44:44 GMT

I haven't tried digging through the code yet, but I think I've
identified a problem with Pine and IMAP.  From what I can tell,
it is Pine that supplies the full pathname of the INBOX when Pine
is using the IMAP service

This can be a real problem if (as I am) you are dealing with several
different operating systems that happen to *NOT* agree on where the
users' INBOX is stored

	SunOS-4.1.3	/var/spool/mail
	Solaris-2.X	/var/mail
	IRIX-5.x	/usr/var/mail

This list is not complete, other systems put things in places other than 
those listed above.

I discovered this problem while testing the Solaris version of IMAP with
a SunOS Pine client.  Pine kept telling me that my mailbox was empty until
I created a symbolic link on the Solaris system from /var/spool/mail 
to /var/mail.

I don't think the client (i.e. Pine) should be telling the server (IMAP)
where to look for the users' INBOX. 

-Randy

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 1994 13:49:20 -0700 (PDT)

Randy,
If, in your .pinerc or pine.conf, you use the form: 

 inbox-path={imap-host}inbox

rather than an explicit path name, then the imapd process will interpret
"inbox" in accordance with he convention for the system it was built on. 

-teg