From: "Bruce Timberlake" <brucetimberlake (at mark) gmail.com>
To: "BlueQuartz list" <coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 3:14 PM
Subject: [coba-e:07139] Open WebMail and Outlook - how to coexist?
> 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?
Set
symboliclink_mbox no
Otherwise, whenever a webmail user moves something from their inbox to
"Saved Messages", it will just disappear.
There definitely should not be a symlink.
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Ken Marcus
Precision Web Hosting, Inc.
http://www.precisionweb.net