Re: Access to CVS

[Peter Williams <peter newton cx>]

On Sat 22 Apr 2000 14:26:18 Erik Petersen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The druid balks if the default inbox (/var/spool/mail/*) doesn't exist
> complaining that it can't create it.

This is not the fault of the druid; /var/spool/mail can only be written
to by root... usually the mail daemon creates a file and changes its 
permissions when a new mail spool is created. I suppose we could write
code to send a simple message to get the inbox created, but that seems
awfully hackish.

> The program exits with an error if it tries to look up the POP server
> hostname and can't

This should be a good thing to work on as a starter.

> The "Create a Mailbox" menuitem and the server preferences are inconsistant:
>   - The local spool is not listed as a server

I'm not sure I get you here... but if I do, you can just put 'localhost' as
the server name.

>   - There is no option to add a POP mailbox, only local or IMAP
> 

This is one of our weirdities, because POP is handled differently than IMAP
and local mailboxes. They're listen in the prefs box, so to create a POP3
mailbox and to have it not show up would be confusing. The real fix, of course,
is to do POP3 correctly.

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