Re: [SM-DEVEL] query about development version

[Jonathan A. <jo...@sq...>]

Hello Tony Earnshaw,
On Wednesday, June 15, 2005, you wrote:

>> Thanks to Mr Connor, I am now running 1.5.1 CVS (June 14) and all
>> is well. The only problem I've encountered is that I do not have a
>> "Folder Path" option to tell it only to look in ~/Mail for my mail
>> files. As it is, it is using my home folder and so I have loads of
>> garbage listed in the unsubscribed folder list.

>> I still have 1.4.1 CVS installed (which I have been using for quite
>> a while) and it DOES give me the option to set my folder path to
>> ~/Mail. I checked the help and it says "Some systems don't show
>> this and if it does, don't worry about it" or something to that
>> effect. But that's a pretty bizarre thing to read, given that I
>> know my system can do it.

>> Is there somewhere I can manually edit a file to change my folder path?

> It's the IMAP server that is incorrectly configured. It should be
> configured to go to $HOME/Maildir for mail, not to $HOME.

Careful on the assumption of Maildir ;) Justin doesn't mention the
IMAP server so Maildir might not be appropriate (for example uw-imap).

You might want to try running ./configure from the SquirrelMail
directory, and going to..

3.  Folder Defaults

And checking out the option...

1.  Default Folder Prefix         :

All you'd need to put was Mail/ and it should be good to go :)

>> I post this here as opposed to the users list because this is a CVS
>> version issue...hope that's OK..

> I think squirrelmail-users would be better :)

Either works, but it was specifically related to a development version
;)

-- 
Jonathan Angliss
<jo...@sq...>