[Dovecot] question about

[Michiel van Es]

Michiel van Es wrote:
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> Timo Sirainen wrote:
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>> On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 13:41 +0200, Michiel van Es wrote:
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>>> I do not want that every user has it's own /home/$user directory..
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>> See last chapter of http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/MailLocation
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> 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
I think I found it!

default_mail_env = 
mbox:/var/spool/mail/%u:INBOX=/var/mail/%u:INDEX=/tmp/indexes