[dovecot] Re: dovecot and pop3

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 00:47, James H. Cloos Jr. wrote:
> Paul> Anyone know of such a POP3 daemon that connects to the IMAP server.
> 
> Doesn't the UW pops3 server do that?  I believe it at least used to
> use the imap server as a backend.  (Though it may have done so by
> evec(2)ing imapd(8) rather than via tcp; does dovecot support that
> method of imap access?)

Yes, Dovecot's imap process talks to stdin/stdout. All configuration is
read from environment variables, mostly it needs just USER and maybe
MAIL if it can't figure that out itself.