[Dovecot] mbox file location

[Wouter Van Hemel]

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Faisal wrote:

> Is it a good idea to have the mbox file in user home directories rather then
> /var/mail/ ?
>

Yes, if you configure all programs you use that touch mail, so they know 
where they can find the mailboxes.

If your users don't need system access, it's probably easier to just store 
everything in one big tree, so you don't end up with hundreds of system 
accounts that are not.