[Dovecot] question about

[Chris Green]

On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 03:18:33PM +0200, Michiel van Es wrote:
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> Timo Sirainen wrote:
> >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??
> 
It's a (stupid!) fact of life with the IMAP protocol.

Your MUA (E-Mail client program) could, if it wanted, hide the INBOX.
It's not really essential that the users see it.

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Chris Green (chris at areti.co.uk)

    "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."