dovecot - Mar 2006 - MAILDIR environment

from docs/mail-storages.txt:

"Also as a special case, if MAILDIR environment exists, maildir storage is
used with the directory specified in it."

Forgive me if this seems obvious, but is this talking about setting MAILDIR as
an enivornment variable? I have it set on my system in both /etc/profile and
~/.bash_profile:

MAILDIR=/path/to/maildir/
export MAILDIR

and have confirmed this worked by running 'echo $MAILDIR'. I've
logged the user in question out and then in again, as well as restarting dovecot
but it still defaults to checking ~/Maildir when the user logs in. Setting the
location using default_mail_env is not an option here as I need the fallback
behaviour that occurs when default_mail_env is not set.

Any advice appreciated.

<adcx <at> server101.com> writes:
> 
> from docs/mail-storages.txt:
> 
> "Also as a special case, if MAILDIR environment exists, maildir
storage is
used with the directory
> specified in it."
> 
> Forgive me if this seems obvious, but is this talking about setting MAILDIR
as
an enivornment variable? I
> have it set on my system in both /etc/profile and ~/.bash_profile:
> 
> MAILDIR=/path/to/maildir/
> export MAILDIR
> 
> and have confirmed this worked by running 'echo $MAILDIR'. I've
logged the
user in question out and then in
> again, as well as restarting dovecot but it still defaults to checking
~/Maildir when the user logs in.
> Setting the location using default_mail_env is not an option here as I need
the fallback behaviour that
> occurs when default_mail_env is not set.
> 
> Any advice appreciated.
You can use the userdb extra_fields to change settings per account.
See http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-November/017830.html for example.