[Dovecot] question about

[Michiel van Es]

Chris Green wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 03:18:33PM +0200, 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..
>>>
>>>
>>>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.
> 
I do not mind that it is an IMAP 'feature'..I DO mind that Dovecot is 
autocreating it although I told dovecot to only serve pop3 and pop3s!!

Michiel