26 Jan
2006
26 Jan
'06
9:03 a.m.
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Anne Wilson wrote:
I was advised to put 'MAIL=/home/$USER/MailDir:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/$USER' into /etc/profile 'because that's the way that dovecot likes it'. Is this correct? I'm using 0.99.14 on Fedora Core 4.
Well, putting Dovecot beside there will be no other program that handles this type of MAIL= setting, hence, if you have at least one program reading that environment variable (may be postfix :), you have misconfigured it.
I would keep my hands off MAIL=, but configure Dovecot by its .conf file (default_mail_env). This, however, means that you must maintain redundant data.
Bye,
-- Steffen Kaiser