[Zope] Worldpilot and me ... (and UW-IMAP)

[Christian Pfeiffer]

Hi!

I've spent the evening trying to set up Worldpilot to communicate with a
UW-IMAP server
(4.7.x, SuSE-Linux 6.4).

I tried every possible variation in IMAPHACK.py and got various results
ranging from different errors to WP successfully displaying my INBOX.
But no other folder ever appeared. More over, Setting MailListRoot to
Mail resulted in "Mail" appearing six times (for no apparent reason, I
have ~20 subfolders in Mail), and all of them showed up empty.

So I searched the lists archive and did the following: 
Changed FolderFullName=folder[2] to FolderFullName=str(folder[2]) in
Worldpilot.py which resulted in all folders in /home/chris/ showing up
(well, somehow: names were cut if any non-letter characters were used),
but at least this is what one would expect after reading the docs (and
the mails ;-) . So I searched further:
created a c-client.cf :

I accept the risk for IMAP toolkit 4.1.
set black-box-directory /var/spool/imap_folderlinks/

created imap_folderlinks and a symlink to my maildirectory and ...
Success - somehow. Now my subfolders showed up (at least those without
non-letter characters in their names) but my INBOX had gone. So for
testing I copied INBOX from /var/spool/mail/<user> to /home/<user>/mail
and it worked. 

Only one thing left: folder creation does not work for me. WP creates
only subfolders and they are named parent.subfolder. As "." is no
letter, these do not appear (at least this is what I believe ;-). This
was mentioned on the list before, but I found no solution.

Nevertheless I was yet thinking about letter-only folder names as I
noticed that now using Netscape Messenger isn't possible any more. INBOX
is there, but all other folders cannot be subscribed to (Netscape tries
tosubscribe /home/<user>/Mail/<user>/<foldername> ... argh!).

Does anybody know if other mailers (especially Outlook) behave the same
way (a Worldpilot-only setup is not what I want) or is there a solution
to get both Netscape and Worldpilot live together happily ever after? As
last resort I could migrate to Cyrus-IMAP, if it can be done with
existing accounts. Any experiences?

Thanks in advance,

Chris


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Christian Pfeiffer
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