On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, William O'Shea wrote: > I want to change the default folder locations to > $home/imap/. I have read the CONFIG file and it > seems to indicate that I will need to change a > file in the source and recompile and that I will > need to do this for every sercurity update or > patch that comes out.
That is correct. > Is there no way to change this location using > an environment variable instead of editing the > source each time? Servers don't get started with any environment variables, so that's a non-starter. You would have to use a configuration file. Unfortunately, configuration files are just as vulnerable to getting things set wrong as source patches (even more so, since every program's configuration file works differently) and also create a window of opportunity for hackers. -- Mark -- http://staff.washington.edu/mrc Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate. Si vis pacem, para bellum.
