Fetchmail socket problem

[jdow]

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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?

Shhhh, it works. I don't want my machine to get ideas about it and suddenly
stop working.

{o.o}    (Seriously - the way I quoted it above is what Dovecot wants.)