Re: my vs maildir

[Richard Riley]

David Brown <davidb@davidb.org> writes:

> 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

Thats interesting. I would have thought there would be at least a switch
(defaulting to true) which tells it to use the proper
/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf. In fact that, or something similar, must
exist or you would need to specify things like virtual users, legal
authentication modes etc too.