http://www.davideous.com/imap-maildir/distrib/imap-4.6-cleanhome-1.00.patch
released Sat Sep  2 11:43:25 EDT 2000

David Harris <dharris@drh.net>

thanks to richard lucassen <lucassen@bigfoot.com> for testing and feedback.

--

This patch will cause the maildir files for the sub-folders (non INBOX
folders) to be created in the ~/Mail directory instead of the user's
home directory.

Instead of maildirs named:
   
   directory            Netscape
   -----------------------------
   ~/Maildir            Inbox
   ~/Trash              Trash
   ~/Sent               Sent
   ~/Maildrop/subdir    Maildrop/subdir

They get named like this:
   
   directory                    Netscape
   -------------------------------------
   ~/Mail/Maildir               Inbox
   ~/Mail/Trash                 Trash
   ~/Mail/Sent                  Sent
   ~/Mail/Maildrop/subdir       Maildrop/subdir

Basically this helps un-clutter the user's home directory.

The Mail directory *must* contain the Maildir directory (Mail/Maildir)
in maildir format before you connect to the IMAP server. If you forget
this, mbox format directories will be created by the IMAP server. (This
assumes you are also running the imap-4.5-createproto.patch patch.)

Another thing that should not be forgotten is to change the contents
of the ~/.qmail file which normally points to ~/Maildir/. This should
be ~/Mail/Maildir/ and if the ~/.qmail file doesn't exist it should
be created:

   echo "./Mail/Maildir/"> ~/.qmail


diff -rNu3 imap-4.6_vpop_orig/src/osdep/unix/env_unix.c imap-4.6_vpop_my/src/osdep/unix/env_unix.c
--- imap-4.6_vpop_orig/src/osdep/unix/env_unix.c	Wed Dec  1 12:18:57 1999
+++ imap-4.6_vpop_my/src/osdep/unix/env_unix.c	Wed Dec  1 12:19:40 1999
@@ -533,7 +577,10 @@
       nslist[0] = &nshome,nslist[1] = &nsblackother,nslist[2] = &nsshared;
     else {			/* not a black box */
       nslist[0] = &nshome,nslist[1] = &nsunixother,nslist[2] = &nsshared;
-      myHomeDir = cpystr (home);/* use real home directory */
+      sprintf(tmp, "%s/Mail", home);
+      if (stat(tmp,&sbuf))
+        mkdir(tmp, dir_protection);
+      myHomeDir = cpystr ( (!stat (tmp,&sbuf) && (sbuf.st_mode & S_IFDIR)) ? tmp : home );
 				/* make sure user rc files don't try this */
       blackBoxDir = blackBoxDefaultHome = "";
     }