On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Mike M. Volokhov wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 01:40:13 -0500
> "Louis  Guillaume" <lguillaume@berklee.edu> wrote:
>
> > I've been patching src/osdep/unix/env_unix.c in the imap-uw package
> > manually for a while now so that I can specify a "mailsubdir" on my imap
> > server. Finally I got tired of doing it over and over. This avoids the
> > users' imap folders ending up in their home directory (which is the
> > default).
> >
> > This may not be the best approach in pkgsrc, but here's what I did on
>
> That's it. All feature/bug fixes related to software itself should be
> sent to software authors.

Look at the patch Louis submitted. It's a patch to the NetBSD package,
not a patch to the software. The question of which values a compiled
package should have by default is entirely on-topic here.

> > our system and it seems to work ok. Apply this patch and build with
> > IMAP_UW_MAILSUBDIR="mail" and all imap folders show up in ${HOME}/mail
> > for each user.
> > [snip]
>
> I think you can achieve this functionality by creating /etc/c-client.cf
> file within following contents:
>
> 	I accept the risk
> 	set mail-subdirectory mail

Well, that does seem to make Lous' patch moot.

> This means all mailfolders for users will be stored in their $HOME/mail
> directory. For example, my own practice is use .IMAP subdirectory. Please
> take a look to ${PKG_PREFIX}/share/doc/imap-uw/imaprc.txt file and its
> companions.
>
> But another question which I have for a long time is why c-client.cf file
> stored in the /etc directory, instead of ${PKG_PREFIX}/etc one? I haven't
> look to all c-client software, but seems this file used by libc-lient.*
> libraries only, and no clients' references are needed, isn't it?
>
> Thus, maybe we can move it to /usr/pkg/etc instead?

Heh, do you want to start a religious war? It should rather be
${PKG_SYSCONFDIR} or ${PKG_SYSCONFBASE}, so the user or administrator
can decide. [${PKG_SYSCONFBASE} currently defaults to "${PREFIX}/etc",
but I for one would like to see it changed to "/etc".]

Frederick