From: Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: my vs maildir
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 18:42:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ift1pj$i2a$1@quimby.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vd26djmc.fsf@a64.davidb.org>
David Brown <davidb@davidb.org> writes:
> On Mon, Jan 03 2011, Richard Riley wrote:
>
>> Brett Viren <brett.viren@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Philipp Haselwarter
>>> preauthtunnel = ssh -q REMOTEHOST 'MAIL=maildir:$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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-03 17:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-30 21:59 prad
2010-12-31 0:35 ` Brett Viren
2010-12-31 8:50 ` Tassilo Horn
2011-01-01 6:21 ` prad
2011-01-01 9:16 ` prad
2011-01-01 13:06 ` Philipp Haselwarter
2011-01-06 16:37 ` Eric S Fraga
[not found] ` <mailman.0.1293887230.28475.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2011-01-01 13:52 ` Richard Riley
2011-01-01 22:35 ` Philipp Haselwarter
2011-01-01 16:24 ` Brett Viren
2011-01-01 20:56 ` prad
[not found] ` <mailman.12.1293915387.32515.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2011-01-02 9:04 ` Richard Riley
2011-01-02 10:38 ` Philipp Haselwarter
2011-01-02 18:38 ` prad
[not found] ` <mailman.4.1293993514.23049.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2011-01-02 20:02 ` Richard Riley
2011-01-02 21:03 ` Brett Viren
[not found] ` <mailman.0.1294002284.29417.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2011-01-02 21:10 ` Richard Riley
2011-01-03 2:54 ` Philipp Haselwarter
2011-01-03 3:12 ` Brett Viren
[not found] ` <mailman.29.1294024360.15403.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2011-01-03 13:50 ` Richard Riley
2011-01-03 16:42 ` David Brown
2011-01-03 17:42 ` Richard Riley [this message]
2011-01-03 19:38 ` Dan Christensen
2011-01-03 17:21 ` Brett Viren
[not found] ` <mailman.27.1294023329.15403.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2011-01-03 13:44 ` Richard Riley
2011-01-03 3:02 ` prad
[not found] ` <mailman.28.1294023762.15403.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2011-01-03 13:48 ` Richard Riley
2011-01-03 20:28 ` prad
2011-01-03 23:10 ` Brett Viren
2011-01-03 23:31 ` Yuri D'Elia
[not found] ` <mailman.20.1294096220.614.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2011-01-03 23:57 ` Richard Riley
2011-01-04 11:30 ` Adam Sjøgren
[not found] <mailman.0.1293746291.12460.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2010-12-31 2:33 ` Richard Riley
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