Qmail folders

[Kareem Shehata]

On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 20:15, Jay wrote:
> > Hi Jay,
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org [mailto:owner-tlug at ss.org]On Behalf Of
> >> jay-ZPnsNkHkFjk at public.gmane.org
> >> Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 6:51 PM
> >> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> >> Subject: [TLUG]: Qmail folders
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi all, I have succesfully installed qmail/courier-imap and squirrelmail
> >> on Gentoo 1.4 and got my DNS MX records setup properly. I can send and
> >> receive mail without any problems, however, I only have an INBOX. I
> >> don't
> >> have a DRAFTS, SENT, or TRASH folder. I try making them through
> >> squirrelmail and I get an error message:
> >>
> >> Quote:
> >> ERROR : Could not complete request.
> >> Query: CREATE ".maildir/.Sent"
> >> Reason Given: Invalid mailbox name
> >>
> >> BTW, I typed "Sent" and it made it ".Sent"
> >>
> >> If I make the folder manually through a shell in my /home/user/.maildir/
> >> directory squirrelmail doesn't even notice it.
> >>
> >> Not only do I need these folders, I need other folders too so I can sort
> >> my mail according to different lists I am on, just as HARDWARE and TLUG.
> >>
> >> Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong and what I need to do.
> >>
> >
> > I haven't seen your problem in my setup, but could it be that you didn't
> > use
> > maildirmake to create the Maildir directory that qmail likes?  If you
> > haven't read Life With Qmail that might be a starting point.
> > <http://www.lifewithqmail.org>
> 
> I've skimmed through it, but here is the thing. When I "emerge qmail" in
> gentoo it downloads, compiles, installs qmail and autmatically adds
> .maildir in /etc/skel so that when I add a user the .maildir is
> automatically created so I assume it works and I found no reference to
> anything in the Gentoo forums.
> 
> I'll delete it and manually create one as you suggest and see if it works.

In my qmail setup, I have more in the maildir's than an empty
directory.  Also, any of the subfolders that show up in an IMAP client
start with a period, so it sounds like maildir is something slightly
more complicated that just a directory structure.

Glad to hear maildirmake worked.  I'll remember that trick for the next
system I set up.

Kareem


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