Hi all,

Firstly - I'm new to this game, so I apologise in advance if this is a newbie mistake.

I've spent the last few days playing with Courier-imap. I would appreciate if someone could help me, or point me in the right direction on the following issue. On my machine (FreeBSD 4.4) email is kept in the /var/mail/XXXX directory, where XXXX is the username (maildir). I've installed imapd, using PAM authentication, all which seems to work fine -- clients log in, authenticating successfully, according to the log.

However, I get the error message "Maildir: no such file or directory" back from the server, meaning that I have not set it up correctly with regards to telling imapd where to look for maildirs.

Reading through imapd.rc I noted that couriertcpd is started with the last argument being "${exec_prefix}/bin/imapd Maildir", so I tried changing that to "/var/mail", but that was not the correct solution.

I must be missing something obvious, but I can't see any configure option that specifies this, nor any setting in .../etc/imapd

So, in short, how do I tell imapd to find mailboxes in /var/mail?

Thanks in advance for any pointers,

stefan