[Dovecot] Missing 'mailbox' variable ?

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 23:00 +0100, David Goncalves wrote:
> Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > What do you use home for? If you don't want anything under user's "real"
> > home directory, you can just make mailMessageStore=home. But then again,
> > see http://wiki.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers#homedirs
> 
> Actually home contains the base path of all mailboxes (ie: /opt/mailboxes)
> and the mailMessageStore contains the mailbox path (ie: MyMailBox/ ).

You really shouldn't be setting home to a global common directory.

> The users are virtual, they have no real home.

Dovecot still prefers them to have a virtual home, see the link above.
My suggestion:

user_attrs = .., mailMessageStore=home=/opt/mailboxes/%$

mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir

Then Sieve scripts also go nicely to home dir.

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