Fetchmail socket problem

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> From: "jdow" <jdow at earthlink.net>
> Date: 2006/01/24 Tue AM 07:36:04 EST
> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: Fetchmail socket problem
> 
> From: "Anne Wilson" <cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk>
> 
> > On Monday 23 Jan 2006 19:06, jdow wrote:
> >>
> >> It may be as simple as telling kmail to get NEW mail from the spool
> >> directory, /var/spool/mail/xxx. Or it may involve telling Dovecot
> >> to use the spool directories for incoming and the user home directory
> >> "mail" directory for storing the mail folders for imap. That chunk
> >> of documentation is not particularly trying. I managed to solve it.
> >> I think it involved a one liner:
> >> MAIL=/home/xxx/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/xxx
> >>
> > Problems there.  With that line in Dovecot doesn't start - error: 
> > expecting "="
> > 
> > I tried putting spaces around the '=' and now it says 'Unknown setting: 
> > MAIL'
> > 
> > I'll comment it out until I/we can work out the adjustment.
> > 
> > Anne
> 
> Sorry - that one goes into the /etc/profile file. Mea culpa and all that.
> {^_^}
> 
> 

Also, shouldn't that be a "semi-colon" instead of a "colon" in front of INBOX?

--Rob