Fetchmail socket problem

[jdow]

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.
{^_^}