David Brown <[email protected]> writes: > On Mon, Jan 03 2011, Richard Riley wrote: > >> Brett Viren <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Philipp Haselwarter >>> preauthtunnel = ssh -q REMOTEHOST 'MAIL=maildir:$HOME/Maildir >>> /usr/lib/dovecot/imap' >> >> Out of idle curiosity, Why do you need to specifiy Maildir paths or even >> MAIL settings? If its IMAP just talk through IMAP the underlying storage >> should be of no interest to the client. > > When you invoke the imap server directly, it doesn't read any > configuration files, and must be told what mail directories to serve. > > David
Thats interesting. I would have thought there would be at least a switch (defaulting to true) which tells it to use the proper /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf. In fact that, or something similar, must exist or you would need to specify things like virtual users, legal authentication modes etc too. _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
