Hi,

if I have a remote collection as first in the list
and the mail/[] later, the postponed-msgs file is
always written to the remote. (Which surprised me,
as I would have expected it to be written to the
currently active account.)

I would like to move it to the local mail/ directory,
but setting the configuration option to mail/postponed-msgs
did not work at all, and #driver.unix/mail/postponed-msgs
worked exactly once for writing, but it complains on second
attempt that it already exists.

How can I do this?

alpine 2.26+dfsg-1~bpo11+1 (Debian)

Thanks,
//mirabilos
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On 2024-09-10 21:11, Thorsten Glaser wrote:

Hi,

if I have a remote collection as first in the list
and the mail/[] later, the postponed-msgs file is
always written to the remote. (Which surprised me,
as I would have expected it to be written to the
currently active account.)

I would like to move it to the local mail/ directory,
but setting the configuration option to mail/postponed-msgs
did not work at all, and #driver.unix/mail/postponed-msgs
worked exactly once for writing, but it complains on second
attempt that it already exists.

How can I do this?

alpine 2.26+dfsg-1~bpo11+1 (Debian)

Thanks,
//mirabilos

The configuration file has this section:


# Over-rides default path for postponed messages folder, e.g. =pm (which uses
# first folder collection dir) or ={host4}pm (using home dir on host4).
# Default: postponed-msgs (Unix) or POSTPOND.MTX (PC) in default fldr coltn. postponed-folder={localhost/novalidate-cert/user=cer}_File/postponed-msgs


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Carlos E.R. dixit:

postponed-folder={localhost/novalidate-cert/user=cer}_File/postponed-msgs

That’d work if there was an imapd running on localhost, no?

.

.

.

… but, considering it, there’s no reason not to fire up an
uw-imapd just for that, as a workaround.

Oh wait, now I see the _File there, is that special?
It’s not documented in the help…

Thanks,
//mirabilos
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On 2024-09-11 21:42, Thorsten Glaser wrote:

Carlos E.R. dixit:

postponed-folder={localhost/novalidate-cert/user=cer}_File/postponed-msgs

That’d work if there was an imapd running on localhost, no?

Yes, of course, but the point was not how I have it configured
currently, but the variable name and the comments :-)


I should have left it empty:

postponed-folder=

.

.

.

… but, considering it, there’s no reason not to fire up an
uw-imapd just for that, as a workaround.

Oh wait, now I see the _File there, is that special?
It’s not documented in the help…

It is just a directory. Mail directory (which is served via imap) has a subdirectory named "_File". It is not relevant for your case.


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