[Dovecot] Getting rid of the common newbie problems

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 10:09 -0400, Bruce Bodger wrote:
> "If you're using mbox, giving a path to the INBOX file (eg. /var/mail/ 
> %u) isn't enough. You'll also need to tell Dovecot where the other  
> mailboxes are and where Dovecot can place its index files. This is  
> called the "root mail directory", and it must be the first path given  
> in the mail_location setting."
> 
> Yet both mbox examples describe otherwise.  The first example,  
> "mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u" has no INDEX  
> definition and the second example, "mail_location = mbox:/var/mail/%d/ 
> %1n/%n:INDEX=/var/indexes/%d/%1n/%n" shows the INDEX definition last  
> when the instructions state that it must be first.

I meant that the index files are also under the root mail directory. But
this doesn't really matter, so I updated the comment:

# If you're using mbox, giving a path to the INBOX file (eg. /var/mail/%u)
# isn't enough. You'll also need to tell Dovecot where the other mailboxes are
# kept. This is called the "root mail directory", and it must be the first
# path given in the mail_location setting.

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