Re: my vs maildir

[David Brown]

On Mon, Jan 03 2011, Richard Riley wrote:

> Brett Viren <brett.viren@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Philipp Haselwarter
>> preauthtunnel = ssh -q REMOTEHOST 'MAIL=maildir:$HOME/Maildir
>> /usr/lib/dovecot/imap'
>
> Out of idle curiosity, Why do you need to specifiy Maildir paths or even
> MAIL settings? If its IMAP just talk through IMAP the underlying storage
> should be of no interest to the client.

When you invoke the imap server directly, it doesn't read any
configuration files, and must be told what mail directories to serve.

David