Re: [SM-USERS] Access to subscribed folders (solved)

[Peter N. <pn...@pn...>]

Hi there folks, got this one licked.

Milan Durovic suggested the following off list.

>I was facing exactly the same problem as you. I installed Squirrelmail 
>yesterday :-) (debian woody).

>To cut the long story short, I SUCCEEDED, and this is how:

>my INBOX normally resides in /var/spool/mail/myusername file. However, 
>all my other folders I kept in /data/mail/myusername directory. To make 
>them accessible from Squirrelmail I created a symbolic link in my home 
>directory:

>ln -s /data/mail/myusername smfolders

>and then when customizing Squirrelmail, I specified "smfolders" (without 
>quotes) as a folder path. Then I subscribed to them and when I clicked 
>on any of those listed under INBOX - haleluyah! - I don't get INBOX 
>contents again, but the folder content.

As my mail tree was already setup under my home directory, I figured that the 
simlink was probably not needed.  I changed the mail root to 'Mail_Tree' 
rather than the default '/' and all seems well.

Thanks guys.

Peter.
 On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 12:45 pm, pn...@pn... wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I've finally got squirrelmail working through this firewall to the point
> where I can access the mail in my inbox and see the rest of the mail tree
> (subscribed folders) in the left panel.
>
> However, whenever I try and access one of the other mail folders, I get
> sent back to the inbox and that's about all I can access.
>
> I can see that new messages have been posted to the sub-folders etc, but
> simply can't access them.
>
> My structure is
>
> INBOX
> then in another subdirectory on the server
>
> mail_tree
>   Box2
>   Box3
> etc...
>
> Any ideas how to get around this?
>
> Thanks..
>
> Peter Nunn.
>
>
>
>
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