[Zope] Worldpilot IMAP Bl00z

[Jack Ungerleider]

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>

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.

 On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Tres Seaver wrote:
<snip>
> 
> WU IMAP on a RH 6.x box is *bizarre*.,
> 
> Ok, I kicked this off before dinner, having added some debugging output to
> imaplib.py.  When I came back, there was a TON of it dumped across the console
> at which I was running Zope, but no mail.  Basically, it had walked down through
> all the .gnome/* directories, sucking up bitmaps, retular files, subdirectories,
> everything (ICK!).
> 
> Maybe we need to add a property to the WorldPilot object which lets you
> configure the folder passed to the initial list() call (e.g., to be something
> like "~/Mail").  This parameter would default to the empty string, so that the
> Cyrus clients would continue to operate as before.  I'll see if I can't come up
> with some kind of patch.
> 
> Tres.
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