[Dovecot] Automatic Index Generation

[Timo Sirainen]

On Sun, 2007-12-09 at 13:48 -0500, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:
> >> vmu1 at test:~$ echo "quit" | /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3
> >> pop3(vmu1): Fatal: pop3_uidl_format setting is missing from config file
> >>
> >> I have pop3_uidl_format correctly defined in the config file. I've also
> >> tried to strace pop3, to find where it does look for it, but with no
> >> success.
> >
> > It gets it from environment:
> >
> > POP3_UIDL_FORMAT=... pop3
> >
> > In general all settings are passed in environment using uppercased
> > names.
> 
> In other words, you (Maciej) probably don't want to run 'pop3' directly. I 
> suspect you'd rather do:
> 
> /path/to/dovecot --exec-mail pop3
> 
> This will set up the environment for the 'pop3' executable the same way 
> dovecot normally does it.

Yes, I was going to mention that but I wasn't sure how well it'd work
when you want to run it for multiple users. At least you can't then
override MAIL environment directly, but rather you need to override USER
and/or HOME.

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