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

[Charlie Kravetz]

On Mon, 5 Jan 2009 00:53:08 -0800
Blaise Gassend <blaise.gassend at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> 

Can you file this on launchpad? I know the system sent it to the users
mailing list, but it never gets worked if it stays here. 

The right place to file bug reports is:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu

That will give the developers a chance to see if they can fix it.

Thanks.

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Charlie Kravetz 
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