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Re: Not-So-Neat WU-IMAPd Workaround (was: Re: Neat WU-IMAPd Workaround :-))



* David Yitzchak Cohen <lists+mutt_users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [040212 07:31]:
> On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 09:12:27PM EST, David Yitzchak Cohen wrote:
> 
> 5) IMAPd must recognize that you're viewing the inbox, and move everything
> from /var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME in when new mail arrives :-)
> 
> As it turns out, procmail was happily
> delivering my mail to /var/spool/mail/dave, but imapd never realized I was
> trying to access my inbox when I went to imap://mail.dave.tj/Mail/INBOX,
> so it didn't bother to move my new mail into there from the spool.

Why don't you get procmail to deliver your mail to /home/dave/Mail/INBOX
rather than /var/spool/mail/dave?  No need for symlinks, no need to visit
imap://mail.dave.tj/INBOX at all.

jack