[Dovecot] If mbox does not exist dovecot creates directory

[Timo Sirainen]

On 10.2.2006 10:54, "Alexander Shikoff" <minotaur at crete.org.ua> wrote:
> When user is trying to login via POP3 and there is no corresponding mailbox
> for it dovecot creates a directory instead of mbox file.
> 
> "mbox:/var/mail/virtual/my.com.ua/ivan.sid:INBOX=/var/mail/virtual/my.com.ua/i
> van.sid:INDEX=MEMORY"

Well, I'm actually wondering why it works at all. The first path is supposed
to be a directory where to store other mailboxes than INBOX. If you don't
want it, see the bottom of http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation