Subject: Re: addressbooks via IMAP

From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 1994 11:25:51 -0700

If you are using an older IMAPd, it will not recognize an addressbook file as
a folder.  The IMAPd from the Pine 3.91 distribution should open it as a
read-only pseudo-folder.  Pine cannot make use of a remote addressbook as an
addressbook unless you mount it via NFS or some such. 

|\ |  |\/|  David L. Miller    [email-masked]  (206) 685-6240
|/ |_ |  |  Software Engineer, Pine Development Team   (206) 685-4045 (FAX)
University of Washington, Networks & Distributed Computing, JE-20
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On 26 Oct 1994, Billy Barron wrote:

> Date: 26 OCT 1994 13:43:54 GMT 
> From: Billy Barron <[email-masked]>
> Newgroups: comp.mail.pine
> Subject: addressbooks via IMAP 
> 
> On PINE 3.9X, I put my global addressbooks in the directory
> /var/spool/mail/pinestuff (/var/spool/mail obviously being the
> location of the INBOX) for UNIX using NFS.  Our Novell guy tried 
> to access them via IMAP and claims he got some type of permission
> denied message.  I know the files are readable to everyone as all
> UNIX users can access it.
> 
> Is there something in the IMAP server that blocks access to it?  Or
> does anybody have any other ideas?
> 
> 
> --
> Billy Barron,  Network Services Manager, Univ of Texas at Dallas
> [email-masked] 
> 
>