On Sat, 2002-12-28 at 09:57, Jesse Peterson wrote:
I couldn't reproduce this again (because i can't get imap-master running due to problem below..) but.. When compiling without shadow, passwd, or pam, when logging in I get after a successful login (in my syslog): Dec 28 22:39:38 badcase imap(username): MAIL environment missing and autodetection failed (home /some/home/directory) Now I thought this was covered in a previous fix before (ChangeLog: "2002-12-17 03:00 Timo Sirainen tss@iki.fi") but for some reason it's broken again..?
This is different problem. The mailbox location detection isn't working for some reason with you. Did it used to work, or is this just a different user? ~/mail (mbox) or ~/Maildir has to exist to make Dovecot know what to use.
The configure args problem has to do with --localstatedir. If i leave it default (PREFIX/var) it forces me (even with non-relative pathnames in the config file) for the socket-files (ssl_parameters_file, login_dir) that should go in /var/run to be put under PREFIX, (/usr/local for NetBSD 1.6). Not too bad, if I could override it in the config file, which I can't. So I ./configure'd with --localstatedir=/, and when I run imap-master I now get: Fatal: Can't create directory //run/dovecot: No such file or directory Somewhat odd.
Well, since the default is PREFIX/var, you'd just drop out the PREFIX. ie. --localstatedir=/var. But I'm also a bit annoyed at this change, have to do something about it so that it can be overridden in config file.