On Jan 17, 2004, at 10:56 pm, Dan Egli wrote:
Anyone know how to configure Courier?
I just installed Courier Imap and Courier pop. I got courier pop to work
barely by simlinking the maildir dirs new cur & tmp to my home dir, but imap
refuses to work. I need to know how to configure courier so that it will
always look for mail like this:
pop3: /home/<user>/.mail/inbox
imap: /home/<user>/.mail/ (all folders below here)
Any help is really apprecaited. I do not want any virtual hosting or the
like. This is a very simple mailbox setup.
I take it that courier is running on a different machine from that on which you're downloading the POP3 to..? Because it would be very weird if you downloaded POP3 into the same folder that IMAP was reading from. I only use courier's IMAP functions.
Anyway, you should already have looked in /etc to see if your install has put an configuration files there, and taken a look at them so you can edit accordingly. You should find:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] stroller $ sudo grep -i maildir /etc/courier-imap/imapd
#Hardwire a value for ${MAILDIR}
MAILDIR=.Maildir
[EMAIL PROTECTED] stroller $ ls -la | grep -i maildir
drwx------ 43 stroller users 1504 Jan 17 23:47 .Maildir
[EMAIL PROTECTED] stroller $
Please note also `man maildir` and particularly `man maildirmake`:
DESCRIPTION
The maildirmake command creates maildirs, and maildir folders. This
documentation describes the maildirmake command from the Courier mail
server, which creates an extended form of maildirs that implements
additional extensions beyond the basic maildir properties that were
first implemented in the Qmail mail server.
..
By itself, maildirmake makes a new subdirectory maildir, and creates
all the necessary structures. The -f option creates a new "folder"
within an existing maildir. maildir must already exist, and the
maildirmake command will create a new folder in the maildir.
Stroller.
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