Re: maildir + courrier + /var/mail

[HoxCa <hugh-nospam@atosc.org>]

lo there,

here i use the "virtual_mailbox_base" option of postfix
to force mailbox location on delivery with virtual.

But remember that the first job of a courrier pop/imap
is to chdir in the home directory.
this homedir is mandatory !

Anyway thru courrier userdb you can set the mail ENV
to force the maildir in the proper location.

hope this help

Fabrice Lorrain (home) a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I'm migrating an HPUX sendmail/qpopper server to a debian 
> postfix/courier one.
>
> The config is the following :
> - authentification through flat /etc/passwd file,
> - postfix delivering mail in /var/mail in maildir format
> - courier-pop/courier-imap to access the mail in daemon mode.
>
> I wasn't able to configure courier-pop to read in /var/mail without 
> changing the homedir in /etc/passwd (which is not an option here).
> Did anybody succeed with such a config (ie having courier-pop read mail 
> in /var/mail) ?
>
> What works but doesn't suit my needs :
> - LDAP auth + some attribut pointing to /var/mail/$login
> - from the "postfix+mysql+courrier howto" seems you can do it
> - changing the homedir path in /etc/passwd
> - using "regular" maildir in /home/$login
>
> Any idees/suggestions ?
>
>     Fab


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