On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 02:52:17PM -0800, Mike Lemoine wrote: > I'd like to have mail delivered to a spot other than a user's home > directory... > > At the moment I've got sendmail using maildrop as the local delivery > agent, and using a global maildroprc which looks like: > > import SENDER > DEFAULT="/mail/$LOGNAME" > > I've got it delivering to where i want it... (Can happily cat files > under 'new' and verify that they are what I think they are) The problem > is that imapd isn't reading from there.. It's trying to read from > $HOME/Maildir... In my courierd config file, I've got: > > DEFAULTDELIVERY="/mail/$LOGNAME/" > MAILDROPDEFAULT="/mail/$LOGNAME/" > > But no such luck... > > I have done a 'maildirmake /mail/sven' to create the above maildir... > (as evidenced by the fact that maildrop is delivering there...)
The imap server by default looks at $HOME/Maildir. To make it look at some other location, you have to edit the imapd startup script (usually /usr/lib/courier/sbin/imapd) and look for the couriertcpd line, which actually starts the imap daemon per connection. At the end of the line, you will see something like "/usr/lib/courier/bin/imapd Maildir" which tells the imap daemon to look for Maildir in the current directory (which is usually the user's home directory). Change the Maildir to something like "/mail/$AUTHENTICATED/Maildir", where the $AUTHENTICATED variable contains the logged-in username. Then restart the imap service. This is not documented, because most people do not do what you have done. Most people would use userdb, LDAP or SQL tables to set the location of the Maildir. -- Anand Buddhdev http://anand.org ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
