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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?
Shhhh, it works. I don't want my machine to get ideas about it and suddenly
stop working.
{o.o} (Seriously - the way I quoted it above is what Dovecot wants.)
