Re: Fw: [binc] IMAPdir with qmail-ldap

Kyle Wheeler <[email protected]> Thu, 11 Aug 2005 10:37:04 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.binc.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thursday, August 11 at 01:14 PM, quoth Wind Dong:
> The former use simple symlink, solid solution but an anoid endless 
> INBOX problem, while the latter use more complex way to use standard 
> IMAPdir but remain Maildir as symlink for traditional MTA's delivery 
> compatibiliy. IMO, it's possible like maildir2imapdir.pl's author  
> pointed, when the user access their imap account for the first time, 
> new email coming the same time could be lost.

Hmm... well, you could add a "chmod +t $HOME" to it - that will 
temporarily prevent qmail from delivering mail to that user.

> So how about let MTA delivery to IMAPdir/INBOX directly? Under 
> qmail-ldap is it possible to to do like this (of course, not only IMAP 
> users, but also POP3 and etc)?

In a pure qmail system, that's easy enough. But if you're also using, 
say, vpopmail, it becomes much harder to change the default delivery.

~Kyle
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