Re: imapd automove from spool to inbox

On Fri, 3 Dec 2010, Andrew Daviel wrote:

>
> Pardon the weird title, but I have a weird situation.
>
> We use procmail for mail delivery via dmail, but historically did not
> trust users not to mangle procmailrc and lose their mail. So we have some
> templates, like "all mail in INBOX", and "file spam in Junk", with user's
> .procmailrc a symbolic link to the template, which belongs to root.
>
[snip..]
> However, when imapd ran in response to a user client, the messages were
> magically copied across back to /home/foo/INBOX (a mix folder)
>
> This is a nice feature to have, as it turns out, but I had no idea that
> it existed. Is it a design feature ? Can I trust it ?

Yes, it's a design feature. Look for "snarf" in the UW-imap docs.