Re: [SM-USERS] Different Servers - imapServerAddress

[Albert W. <aewhale@ABS-CompTech.com>]

Thanks for the reply Tomas.

Tomas Kuliavas wrote:

>>There are no errors in the Imap Server logs (UW - Imap), but I did get
>>the following:
>>
>>ERROR : Could not complete request.
>>Query: CREATE "mail/Sent"
>>Reason Given: CREATE failed: Can't create mailbox node
>>/home/aewhale/Mail/mail/: Permission denied
>>    
>>
>
>1. I think you have custom uw build that defaults to ~/Mail/ directory. I
>think Folder prefix has to be set to empty value in such cases.
>  
>

This is a Stock Mandrake imap distribution.  Are you saying that this is 
broken?

>2. It is possible that imap can't create those folders, because somebody
>broke permisions of Mail directory on IMAP server.
>/home/some-username/Mail directory must be readable and writeable by user
>whos name is 'some-username'.
>
>  
>
YIKES!

Mail Spools being readable by 'some-username' ?  Is this an attempt to 
permit the Mail user read/write to the spool, or does IMAP require World 
Read/Write permissions?

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