> > From: "jdow" <jdow@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: 2006/01/24 Tue AM 07:36:04 EST > To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Fetchmail socket problem > > From: "Anne Wilson" <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > On Monday 23 Jan 2006 19:06, jdow wrote: > >> > >> It may be as simple as telling kmail to get NEW mail from the spool > >> directory, /var/spool/mail/xxx. Or it may involve telling Dovecot > >> to use the spool directories for incoming and the user home directory > >> "mail" directory for storing the mail folders for imap. That chunk > >> of documentation is not particularly trying. I managed to solve it. > >> I think it involved a one liner: > >> MAIL=/home/xxx/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/xxx > >> > > Problems there. With that line in Dovecot doesn't start - error: > > expecting "=" > > > > I tried putting spaces around the '=' and now it says 'Unknown setting: > > MAIL' > > > > I'll comment it out until I/we can work out the adjustment. > > > > Anne > > Sorry - that one goes into the /etc/profile file. Mea culpa and all that. > {^_^} > > Also, shouldn't that be a "semi-colon" instead of a "colon" in front of INBOX? --Rob