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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Bug#27911: new imap messages don't appear
From:       Henrique Gomes <hmng () netc ! pt>
Date:       2001-07-01 21:37:23
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On Sunday 01 July 2001 09:13, Michael Häckel wrote:
> On Sunday, 1. July 2001 06:37, Russell Smith wrote:
> > RH 6.2's default IMAP server, on selecting the inbox copies all the mail
> > from /var/spool/mail/wizzard to ~/mbox
> >
(...)
> If you could find out why that is the case, then that would be more
> helpful, i. e. what KMail does different (for example using ethereal or
> tcpdump), then that would be more helpful, since I never saw an IMAP
> server, that copies mails over, when a folder is selected.
> At least I'm not going to install Redhat, just to test that.
>
> KMail only uses the EXAMINE command, as long as you don't want to change
> anything in a folder, could that be the problem?
>
> Regards,
> Michael Häckel
>

Acording to the book "Managing IMAP"  from O'Reilly, that's exactly the 
default behavior of the UW IMAP server, *If* there is a file called ~/mbox
It can be disabled at compile time (it's the mbox driver).

"with mbox support, when INBOX is opened, the severs checks the user's home 
directory  for a Unix mailbox format called mbox. If it exists, the server 
selects the file as INBOX and transfers all mail from spool to the mbox file"

Hope that helps,

- -- 
Henrique Gomes
Email: hmng@netc.pt
       hmng@mail.pt

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