Re: [cobalt-users] [2]IMAP - Where is the Mail Folders root directory configured

["[RaQ2] Chuck" <nagy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Ben Wrigley wrote:

> Thanks for that, but can you tell me how to tell IMAP where to look for mail. I
> know taht the mail is stored in /var/spool/mail but can't get IMAP to llok
> there. It keeps searching user directories.

IMAP and any other mail program can find your mail spool if the MAIL
environment variable is set:

MAIL=/var/spool/mail/[login_ID]

you can build it with:

MAIL=/var/spool/mail/`whoami`
export MAIL

for example.

Hope this helps.