problem with Exim and courier integration

hello

i'm facing a serious problem. I configured exim with Maildir support saving
all mails to /var/mail...

Before i worked saving mails to $HOME/Maildir, the home directory of each
user. This worked fine with the configuration of courier imap.


Now i want to save all mails to /var/mail to have better environment for
backups. But how do i configure courier to work this directory. By default
it is using a variable Maildir which is directed to the home directory of
the users. In the imapd config there is a variable MAILDIRPATH which i set
MAILDIRPATH=/var/mail
but it is not included in the startup process of courier. I just ask me what
it is for then.

Can anybody help out please?

Thanks in advance

Carsten

On Sat, 4 Jun 2005 18:44:22 +0200, Carsten Frank
<carsten.frank@rss-global.com> wrote:
> hello
>
> i'm facing a serious problem. I configured exim with Maildir support saving
> all mails to /var/mail...
>
> Before i worked saving mails to $HOME/Maildir, the home directory of each
> user. This worked fine with the configuration of courier imap.
>
>
> Now i want to save all mails to /var/mail to have better environment for
> backups. But how do i configure courier to work this directory. By default
> it is using a variable Maildir which is directed to the home directory of
> the users. In the imapd config there is a variable MAILDIRPATH which i set
> MAILDIRPATH=/var/mail
> but it is not included in the startup process of courier. I just ask me what
> it is for then.
>
> Can anybody help out please?
>

If I was you I would put the emails back to $HOME/Maildir/ and change
the backups to look in the right place.

Steven
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