[Zope] worldpilot INBOX error

[Jo Meder]

On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 08:49:08PM MET
> I'm using UW IMAP
> on Linux (RH6.1 2.2.14).  It does authorize my username though, as I have
> access to everything else in worldpilot.  And sometimes, it will work but will
> hang for quite awhile, when it does come back with mail it only shows my
> unread mail, everything else has no subject or sender, and is dated at 1969. 
> This only happens after I get the error message below and click on 'Inbox'
> again.

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.