[Alpine-info] Fwd: dovecot

[Benjamin R. Haskell]

On Fri, 29 Jun 2012, Nathan wrote:


> does alpine, the current version support dovecot locally on my unix 

> box?


When running a local Dovecot server, you should access it the same way 
as any IMAP server.  Don't access the folders directly, as that defeats 
(most of?) the purpose of running Dovecot in the first place.  (Let the 
server handle concurrency, not Alpine.)

I don't actually modify my .pinerc manually, so I'm fuzzy on the actual 
syntax for inbox-path, but e.g.:

inbox-path={localhost/ssl/user=bhaskell}INBOX



> also i am trying to figure out how to set up my mail directory 

> remotely from my hosting machine at siteground.. how do i set it up 

> properly.. it uses dovecot...


Similarly to the local case, something like:

inbox-path={siteground.example.com/ssl/user=example at siteground.com}INBOX

If you're using multiple accounts (true if you have Dovecot locally and 
on siteground), you'll start getting into 'collections'.  An example 
external Dovecot server from the collections config screen:

Nickname  : siteground server
Server    : siteground.example.com/ssl/user=example at siteground.com
Path      :
View      :

(Path and View can be blank, usually, but it depends on your host's 
config sometimes.)

-- 
Best,
Ben