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Hi,

I've got UW-IMAP installed on Gentoo. I'm using EXIM as the transfer agent.

EXIM is working fine (I think)... all incoming mail - external and internal goes to /var/mail/username file. I can verifiy this by reading this file directly with nano.

Also, IMAPd is running. It lets me login if I put valid credentials in BUT, it just shows an empty INBOX, Trash and Junk folder in any client I use it with.

Someone told me there isn't any configuration for UW and I certianly, apart from installing it, havnt edited any config files for it.

Is there a way to tell it where the mailbox is stored since it's obviously not reading it.

Cheers,

d11

imap is invoked from xinetd - as is exim by the way

OK I got it working:

It works with /home/username/mbox as the file to use in exim's configuration.
Considering I have 3 domains mapped my server, each with 5 or 6 mail account I dont want to create 15 directories in /home/ purely for the mbox files.

From what I've read I will need to change the C source code before I compile it - Considering how Universal UW-Imap is... this surprises me.

CPanel uses UW_IMAP and they can have many many accounts for many many domains... I wonder what their /usr/exim/configure file looks like and how UW-IMAP is set up to read folders such as

/home/username/Mail/account/INBOX
/home/username/Mail/account/INBOX.Sent
/home/username/Mail/account/INBOX.Trash

/home/username/Mail/account2/INBOX
/home/username/Mail/account2/INBOX.Sent

etc etc...

:-S

I log into each accoutn with a different username of course... i just want more flexibility about where the files can be stored.

By the way... is Unix for Dummies a suitable forums for this or is it considered technical?

Maybe I should be asking a different question...

What tools do I need to have multiple mailboxes for multiple domains on the same hardware? Like a shared server, expect all the accounts are mine.

I cant find any way to get UW-IMAP to accept a login from users other than those who have shell access.

Example: I actually have an account on a shared now and I have an email address mail@mydomain.com...

UW-IMAP would try to interpret the "mail" portion as the "mail" user on my system but somehow my host authenticates me as "mail+mydomain.com".... how have they done that? It can't be an alias in /etc/aliases for the fact that if somebody on the same server had mail@theirdomain.com it wouldn't work.

I don't mind if I have to add UNIX system users to acheive this... but I'd have to put the home dirs somewhere tidier than /home... like /srv/mail/user and somehow avoid isses with usernames matching usernames from other domains on same server.

Thanks in advance