Problems with exim and courier imap

["Carsten Frank" <carsten.frank@rss-global.com>]

hello

i'm facing a serious problem. I configured exim with Maildir support saving 
all mails to /var/mail...

Before i worked saving mails to $HOME/Maildir, the home directory of each 
user. This worked fine with the configuration of courier imap.


Now i want to save all mails to /var/mail to have better environment for 
backups. But how do i configure courier to work this directory. By default 
it is using a variable Maildir which is directed to the home directory of 
the users. In the imapd config there is a variable MAILDIRPATH which i set 
MAILDIRPATH=/var/mail
but it is not included in the startup process of courier. I just ask me what 
it is for then.

Can anybody help out please?

Thanks in advance

Carsten