On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 03:45, Vikram Goyal wrote: > > > > What happens if you push it down a directory level so the progams > > always work in a real directory under the symlinked one? > > > > The only work around I can think of is to create real dirs for maildirs > and create symlinks to new, cur, tmp dirs under it and hardlink the > mailboxes. > > Thanks again to all for helping me to sort it out. If you hardlink the files underneath, you shouldn't need any directory links at all - but then you can get out of sync if links are deleted separately. Sometimes that would be an advantage. Have you considered using the Dovecot or Cyrus IMAP servers so you don't have to do anything special to read with different programs? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
