Topic: problem with IMP3.0 & courier

[lepounet]

hi,

Last WE I switched from uw-imap to courier IMAP following instructions given at
http://www.neddix.de/sme/courier/index.php

and I upgraded webmail to 3.0 according to :
http://www.familybrown.org/howtos/imp-upgrade.html

Now I have a couple of problems :

- I use to have a couple of personnal folders at the same tree level than inbox, they all have been moved under INBOX. Is that Normal ?

- in webmail, at login prompt it ask me for Folder Prefix with Mail/ as default.
In my case mail has been moved from user/Mail/ to user/ for compatibility with outlook. Where do I setup default for this Folder Prefix in order not to have to remove manually the Mail/ choice that appear by default at every connection ?

- In webmail I can access to all my folders and subfolders but if I want to organize them and go to the folders management window (where you can create or delete folders), there are some subfolders that does not appear !!!!

- In outlook 2000 I use to connect to a couple of accouts at the same time (3 or 4 IMAP accounts). There are always one or two that are randomly unreachable (impossible to connect to server). I close oulook, re-open it and I get connected to another set of folders. Some that were unreachable before are now OK but one or two that I just get connected a few seconds before are now unreachable.
Outlook gives a messages that perhaps the delay between those differents connections was too short.

Thks a lot for your help to one or all of those questions

Alain

[Dan Brown]

It's been a while since I worked with Courier (I still prefer it to WU, which is what's included w/ SME, but it was too much of a pain to keep changing it after every update), but I can think of at least one change you'll need to make.  Edit /etc/e-smith/templates/home/httpd/html/horde/imp/config/servers.php/40Servers to read as follows:

$servers['imap'] = array(
    'name' => 'IMAP Server',
    'server' => 'localhost',
    'protocol' => 'imap',
    'port' => 143,
    'folders' => '',  // this is two single quotes, changed from Mail/
    'namespace' => 'INBOX.',  // be sure to get the period after INBOX
    'maildomain' => '{ $DomainName }',
    'smtphost' => 'mail.{ $DomainName }',
    'realm' => '{ $DomainName }',
    'preferred' => ''
);

[lepounet]

Thks for your help.

One problem is corrected, folder prefix is now empty.
Nobody has an  idea for my other problems ? especially the reason why I don't see the correct folder list in folder management ?

Thks

Alain

[Serge Dutremble]

This also now relates to SME 5.5 as it now uses IMP 3.0.

When you create sub-folders within Outlook Express, the directory structure is not the same under IMP.

Furthermore, if you go two level deep within Outlook Express, all is fine but on a resynch or reloal of Outlook Express, all second level folders are gone both in Outlook Exress AND in IMP.

If you look into the /home/e-smith/files/users/username/  you see that the folders still contain the subfolders starting at the root (so you have to empty the field showing Mail/ at the IMP login page) with all the IMP folders.  The essages are in the ner directory.

This is a marked difference in behavior that is not very well documented.  In fact it is quite cryptic to figure out.

Is there a way to make all this more compatible with Outlook Express so that folders and sub-folders are treated the same in both packages and mail does not dissapear?

This is quite upsetting to users (and one of them is my wife so I end up with the complaint being quite strongly delivered!

This is serious guys.  I am getting a lot of heat over this!

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Serge.