Jack Ungerleider wrote:
Hi Tres, This was written up last week and after a little digging on egroups (I thought I had saved that message) I finally found it. Jo Meder provided the following information
<quote> Chances are, that the request to "LIST *" in directory "" that imaplib issues cause your imapd to begin scanning your whole home directory which can be a lot of data, as we all know.
I worked around this problem by creating /etc/c-client.cf with the following contents (the first line is required by imapd, otherwise the file is not accepted):
--------------------------------------cut here ------------------- I accept the risk for IMAP toolkit 4.1. set black-box-directory /var/spool/imap_folderlinks/ --------------------------------------cut here -------------------
I then created /var/spool/imap_folderlinks and symlinked the directory in which my mailbox folders reside to /var/spool/imap_folderlinks/jo
Repeat for all users on the system and set permissions appropriately.
Jo. </quote>
I will be roasted -- I thought I'd followed these directions already, and still had it hang. When I went back to try again, I discovered that the symlinks were screwy (how imapd found my home directory at all is a good question). When I clean them up, it works!
Also some information on this can be found in the file imaprc.txt that should be in /usr/doc/ or where ever RH dumps it. (I'm running this on SuSE myself.) I have tried this fix but I probably will.
Hmmm, /usr/doc/imap-4.5 has only a README file, which doesn't mention the /etc/c-client.cfg file at all (it talks about building the package, and setting up the /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf files to make IMAP work). Thanks very much for reposting those directions! Tres. -- ========================================================= Tres Seaver tseaver@palladion.com 713-523-6582 Palladion Software http://www.palladion.com