[Dovecot] question about

[Michiel van Es]

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 13:41 +0200, Michiel van Es wrote:
> 
>>I do not want that every user has it's own /home/$user directory..
> 
> 
> See last chapter of http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/MailLocation
> 
I do not get it..
I have all usersmail stored in /var/spool/mail/%u
But Dovecot HAS to write somewhere an INBOX file/directory ?
My questions is WHY does it have to create an INBOX directory/file??

Jun 20 15:14:54 mx01 pop3-login: Login: aaptest [::ffff:10.101.3.37]
Jun 20 15:14:54 mx01 pop3(aaptest): mbox: Can't create root IMAP folder 
/home/aaptest/mail: Permission denied
Jun 20 15:14:54 mx01 pop3(aaptest): Failed to create storage with data: 
mbox:/var/spool/mail/aaptest
Jun 20 15:14:54 mx01 dovecot: child 3698 (pop3) returned error 89

I told dovecot that I do not want an IMAP server but it HAS to create an 
IMAP folder?

And if I have to allow dovecot to create an IMAP folder..how do I tell 
Dovecot it can put al his INBOX files per user in /tmp?

Thanks in advance.

Michiel