[Dovecot] Setting IMAP root as user's home directory. How?

[Stephen K. Gielda]

At 04:56 AM 6/8/2004, Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
>I'm trying to set up dovecot to use /home/username as IMAP root, but it 
>keeps creating /home/username/mail.  I need /home/username in order to 
>migrate with the least changes from uw-imap, just by copying .mailboxlist 
>without the INBOX line in it into .subscriptions
>
>I tried each of these, one at a time:
>
>default_mail_env = mbox:~/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
>default_mail_env = mbox:%h/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
>default_mail_env = mbox:/home/%u/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
>
>In each case, dovecot was stubornly creating /home/username/mail
>
>Please CC me, I'm not on the mailing list.  Thanks.

Don't include the trailing /, ie. use this:

default_mail_env = mbox:%h:INBOX=/var/mail/%u

/steve