imapd snarfing to mix formatted inbox

Although this list seems almost inactive since Mark Crispin's regrettable 
departure, I place my query here with the hope of a reply from the users' 
community. I also sent a message to the alpine-contact address listed by Mark 
in his last message, but no reply followed.

I intend to switch the incoming mail inboxes on the system I am administering
to the alternative mix format. I compiled and installed imapd 2007a and it
works fine, but there is one feature that I was not able to use. Mailboxes in
the mix format (or any alternative format) are recognized, but the messages
from the Unix mail spool are not snarfed into these mailboxes. On the other
hand, pine 4.64 is able to snarf messages from the mail spool files into the
alternative inboxes it recognizes, as stated in the documentation. The name and
path for these inboxes were set according to the documentation (i.e., INBOX for
mix or mbox for mbox, placed in my home directory), but imap clients do not see
them as inboxes. On the contrary, pine run directly on the mail server detects
these mailboxes as inboxes and snarfs the messages from the mail spool.

I know that tmail delivery is a better alternative, but for the moment, lacking
a test system, I have to resort to a gradual and maybe partial migration of the
mailboxes. The load on the system is not important, so snarfing should do the
job. Besides, I am not sure that tmail works out of the box, and I kannot
afford risky tests on a production system.

Marius Micluta

Institute of Biochemistry of the Romanian Academy
Splaiul Independentei 296
060031 Bucharest
ROMANIA