dovecot - Aug 2003 - why wont /usr/pkg/libexec/dovecot/imap see my Maildir

When I invoke /usr/pkg/libexec/dovecot/imap from the command loine on
the mail host, it logs me in, but won't see my emails:

13:22 yeled at lazy:~$ /usr/pkg/libexec/dovecot/imap
* PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND
* UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE CHILDREN LISTEXT LIST-SUBSCRIBED] Logged in
* as yeled
0 select inbox
* FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft)
* OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)]
* Flags permitted.
* 0 EXISTS
* 0 RECENT
* OK [UIDVALIDITY 1059959635] UIDs valid
* OK [UIDNEXT 1] Predicted next UID
0 OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed.


I know I have many emails in there, and I can see them when I login
via telnet localhost 443.

Any tips? would be nice to use fetchmail with ssh here.

  C.
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On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 06:25, Charlie Allom wrote:
> When I invoke /usr/pkg/libexec/dovecot/imap from the command loine on
> the mail host, it logs me in, but won't see my emails:
..
> I know I have many emails in there, and I can see them when I login
> via telnet localhost 443.
I'd guess it's because you have MAIL environment pointing to some mbox
file. Try "unset MAIL", or "export MAIL=~/Maildir" before
running imap.
Note that imap binary doesn't read your configuration file at all, so if
you've changed any defaults you'll have to give them in environment.

Hmm. Maybe it would be useful to add an option to dovecot binary to read
configuration (which it does always anyway) and then exec() a given
binary with the configuration moved into environment. Something like:

dovecot --exec /usr/pkg/libexec/imap/imap

Or something even simpler, since it can read the binary path from
configuration anyway:

dovecot --exec-mail imap

Another optional feature that I was thinking is to allow users to
override default settings using ~/.dovecotrc file. It would be mostly
useful for namespace configuration and maybe setting some
client-specific workarounds or optimizations.