[Dovecot] Problem with IMAP and MAIL environment

[Luis Miguel Cruz]

I see.
Some users here don´t have home directory, is there anyway to force 
dovecot to use a other directory? something like /opt/dovecot for all 
those users

Thanks

Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On 19.7.2004, at 16:14, Luis Miguel Cruz wrote:
> 
>>> Do you need to create a directory ~/master/ ?
>>
>>
>> This box is horrible, some users don´t have home directory :P
>> But the problem is why I need home directory if I only use pop3 with 
>> mailboxes under /var/spool/mail/<user>?
> 
> 
> Dovecot needs to create it's index files somewhere, that's where you'd 
> need the home dir. Dovecot anyway isn't really POP3-optimized, 
> especially with mbox. If that's all you need you might as well use 
> something else.
> 
> Normally POP3 users just download their mail and delete it from server. 
> Then Dovecot's indexing is pointless and just slows down. If user leaves 
> the mail to server then indexing would help though. I think Dovecot 
> could theoretically only write indexes if user doesn't delete all their 
> mails, but .. I don't know if it's worth the trouble.
>