Re: mailfront imapfront-auth with dovecot 1.2.16 : SUCCESS

On 11/11/2010 08:33 AM, Bruce Guenter wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 07:04:08AM +0800, Giam Teck Choon wrote:
>>   So how you stat the two
>> format?  Just curious.  By using the $SETUP_DOVECOT variable?  Like
>> SETUP_DOVECOT=mbox|maildir?  Or simply stat the $MAIL to see it is a
>> directory or a file to differential maildir or mbox respectively before
>> modifying $MAIL to maildir or mbox etc. to dovecot imap?
>
> That's exactly what I've done now.  Directory is assumed to be maildir,
> anything else (including missing file) is assumed to be mbox.

Ok.

>
>> mbox and maildir are well know standards I guess but dovecot has their
>> own called dbox (http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/dbox).  Do you
>> plan to support such?
>
> Not planned, no, though I could be persuaded.
>
>> If you are interested, I can report back my progress about the test for
>> their version 2?
>
> Definitely, please do.
>

Things not what we expected.  Their version 2.0.7 not honouring $MAIL at 
all.  I will keep on testing various environment variables and report 
back if I find out more.

Thanks.

Kindest regards,
Giam Teck Choon