From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/14531 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: my vs maildir Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 18:42:11 +0100 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <87aajmrkgb.fsf@towardsfreedom.com> <87wrmpnfvm.fsf@towardsfreedom.com> <87vd26d7cs.fsf@nzebook.haselwarter.org> <87vd26djmc.fsf@a64.davidb.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1294080022 10265 80.91.229.12 (3 Jan 2011 18:40:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 18:40:22 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 03 19:40:18 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PZpKL-00006r-5M for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 19:40:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38895 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PZpKK-00074O-Fc for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 13:40:16 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!uio.no!quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.183.18.158 Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1294076531 18506 85.183.18.158 (3 Jan 2011 17:42:11 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 17:42:11 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:85269 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:14531 Archived-At: David Brown writes: > On Mon, Jan 03 2011, Richard Riley wrote: > >> Brett Viren 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.