Hi,

For the past day, I have been researching about making dovecot to support mailfront (http://untroubled.org/mailfront/) imapfront-auth natively and able to use mailfront imapfront-auth with dovecot imap v1.2.16 without starting any dovecot related services and no /etc/dovecot.conf file is required.

More information about this can be read at:

http://lists.untroubled.org/?list=bgware&cmd=showthread&month=201011&threadid=elpfjlnilcganfkokehg

However, same trick can't be used for dovecot v2.0.7. First error is /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf must be exists so I just simply touch /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf with empty content to bypass that error. I noticed v2.0.7 is not using $MAIL environment variable to override mail_location?

I have read the following:

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation

Any idea to override mail_location setting? I have tried various setting of environment variables such as below:

--------------------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<--------------------- #!/bin/sh

# $MAIL, $HOME, $MAILDIR, $MAILBOX are the same in mailfront # imapfront-auth if [ -n "$MAIL" ]; then # make dovecot imap escape colon by replacing single : to :: export MAIL=maildir:echo $MAIL | sed 's@:@::@g' fi export USERDB_KEYS="$USERDB_KEYS mail" # For knowing all env. uncomment the below line and # see /tmp/imapd-log.txt # printenv >>/tmp/imapd-log.txt exec "$@" --------------------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<---------------------

The above script is being placed between imapfront-auth and dovecot imap (/usr/libexec/dovecot/imap).

Thanks for any kind assistance.

Kindest regards, Giam Teck Choon