Subject: Re: PINE/IMAP4 Problems -- Please Help

From: Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 10:57:33 -0800

On 9 Mar 1997, Jonathan Siegel wrote:
> 	A) For most users, imapd was invoked instead of rimapd.

Do those users have something in their .login, .cshrc, .profile, etc.
files that causes output to happen when the command
	rsh serverhost /etc/rimapd
is done?  99 times out of 100, that's the explanation.

> 	D) After a long and nervous search, we found that PINE/IMAP had
> 	   dumped the "missing" mail in each user's $HOME/mbox file --
> 	   a file that hadn't been touched, in most cases, since we
> 	   abandoned /usr/ucb/mail in favor of PINE over two years ago!

Sigh.  Do it one way, people complain; do it the other way, other people
complain.

By default, the mbox driver is enabled in imap-4.1.  If you have a file
called "mbox" on the home directory, the mbox driver will move mail from
the mail spool to that file.  To disable this behavior, delete mbox from
DRIVERS in the c-client makefile (imap-4.1/src/osdep/unix/Makefile) 

-- Mark --

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