[Nottingham] Local mail server - again.....

[Martin Garton]

> My ideal would be to leave this as it is, but for any user to be able to 'log 
> in' to any of the KMail directories from any machine.   That would mean 
> having an IMAP or POP server which used (eg) 
> /home/david/.Mail/.Family.directory/Ben/cur 
> as the directory from which mail was served when Ben logs in from another 
> machine.
> Does anyone know whether this is feasible?

Dovecot should be able to handle this.  Generally, dovecot "just works"
if you want an imap or pop3 server that reads users mailboxes.  If you
want something different as in your case, you just need to change
"default_mail_env" in "/etc/dovecot.conf" to something like
"/home/david/.Mail/.Family.directory/%n/cur" or similar.

Note that I haven't done this myself, but it looks like it should work.

-- 
Martin.

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