Netscape 7.1 & Mail directories

[JHBrewer]

This makes no sense to me either, but here is the apparent situation:

 

If, like me, you have been running a PostFix mailserver under Mandrake 9.2 and

using the Netscape 7.1 Mail client to handle Email from several different IMAP

mailservers including your own, and if you decided to be cute about naming

the $HOME subdirectory where you kept mail from your own server (e.g. as a

reminder about _which_ mail it contained) and named same in the Netscape

Mail Advanced Server Settings for that mail account, and if you recently

upgraded to Mandrake 10, then (unless you are much wiser than I) you have

spent some frustrating hours trying to understand why you can see all your

folders but every time you try to look in one you get an Alert from Netscape

saying "no such mailbox" or something to that effect.

 

Here's why (apparently): Netscape still identifies the old folder tree (call it

$HOME/mymail) and lists all its folders and subfolders, but when it goes to

actually look in a folder it evidently has to go through a server on the system,

for which the default place to look is now (under Mandrake 10) $HOME/Mail

instead of just wherever Netscape asks to look. Or something like that.

 

Anyway, the fix that just worked for me was to move the "mymail" directory tree

into $HOME/Mail/mymail and leave the Netscape settings as they were.

Somehow Netscape still finds the folders, and now can actually access them!

 

Like I said, none of this makes any sense to me; but very little of this mail

server stuff does. I only got PostFix to start delivering mail again yesterday,

by fiddling with /etc/postfix/main.cf for a few more hours until I hit upon some

misconfigured parameter (don't ask me which one; at this point I was so

desperate I was changing things willy-nilly).

 

Hopefully this miraculous salvation out of despair will give hope to others.

 

Cheers -- Jess

[Lord Tom]

Why Netscape?

 

Look on www.mozilla.org for a better browser.