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

[David Aldred]

On Thursday 15 Sep 2005 22:50, Martin Garton wrote:
> > 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.

Thanks - that's looking hopeful.  Unfortunately, we've just had a few hardware 
problems on the 'subsidiary' machines, so testing has been delayed!

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David Aldred