courier-imap: Setting MAILDIR in /etc/default/courier has no effect

[Blaise Gassend]

Package: courier-imap
Version: 4.3.0.20081027-1ubuntu1
Severity: normal


According to /usr/share/doc/courier-base/README.Debian, the directory where
maildirs are stored is set in /etc/default/courier. However, looking at
/etc/init.d/courier-imap, it appears that /etc/default/courier sets the
wrong variable (MAILDIR instead of MAILDIRPATH), and that even once that is
corrected, the setting is overridden in the last line of
/etc/courier/imapd. I'm not sure what the most appropriate way of setting
these defaults is, but the way things currently stand is very confusing.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers hardy-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'hardy-updates'), (500, 'hardy-security'), (500, 'hardy')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages courier-imap depends on:
ii  courier-authlib 0.60.1-1ubuntu2          Courier authentication library
ii  courier-base    0.58.0.20080127-1ubuntu1 Courier mail server - base system
ii  debconf         1.5.20                   Debian configuration management sy
ii  exim4-daemon-li 4.69-2                   lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon
ii  libc6           2.7-10ubuntu3            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgamin0 [libf 0.1.9-2ubuntu2           Client library for the gamin file 
ii  libgdbm3        1.8.3-3                  GNU dbm database routines (runtime
ii  lsb-base        3.2-4ubuntu1             Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

courier-imap recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
  courier-imap/moveconfig: true