[K12OSN] Maildir question

Les Mikesell les at futuresource.com
Mon Jun 20 13:21:12 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 07:49, Shawn Powers wrote:
> Is anyone familiar enough with Maildir to know if it's possible to to 
> either change the location of the Maildir folder (ie, so it's not in 
> /home/username) or to change the name of the folder itself to .Maildir 
> so that my users will stop erasing all their email and blaming me?
> 
> I'm concerned about IMAP compatibility, etc...

How you do that depends on what mail programs you use.  You'll
have to change both the delivery agent and the imap program
to match.  It sounds like what you really need is to use
Cyrus which stores somewhere other than the home directory
or use a different machine for mail delivery - or both.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
   les at futuresource.com




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