Date:  Wed, 20 Sep 2006 15:14:18 -0700
From:  "Bruce Timberlake" <brucetimberlake (at mark) gmail.com>
Subject:  [coba-e:07139] Open WebMail and Outlook - how to coexist?
To:  "BlueQuartz list" <coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org>
Message-Id:  <f76f5d3e0609201514m64bbb00av6cfa722e2f4973df (at mark) mail.gmail.com>
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I'm having issues on a BQ box with users who want to check mail via
Outlook and Open WebMail.

The symlinks from ~/mbox to ~/mail/saved-messages keep getting renamed
to BOGUS.username.xxxxx and then a new symlink is created. I haven't
found the exact sequence of POP->webmail->POP that creates this
problem, but there is mail being "lost" at times during the sequences
of checking throughout the day.

I found some threads online about procmail having issues delivering to
a symlink, but none of the users are using procmail, and
/etc/procmailrc only directs messages to spamc.

Outlook is configured to leave a copy of messages on the server, so
that OWM and Outlook should always be able to see all non-deleted
messages, regardless of which one is checked first.

openwebmail.conf currently contains:

homedirspoolname                mbox
use_homedirspools               yes
symboliclink_mbox               yes


Anyone have the magic config bullet to make OWM stop misbehaving and
allow POP and web access properly?