[Dovecot] Stop Maildir appending to path

Charles Marcus CMarcus at Media-Brokers.com
Mon May 28 16:35:59 EEST 2007


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Henry wrote:
> Dovecot is working perfectly except for one problem. I have local users 
> and virtual users. Local users are ~/Maildir. And virtual users are 
> /home/vmail/domain/user. The problem is, it keeps trying to fetch 
> virtual mail at /home/vmail/domain/user/Maildir. It doesn't exist the 
> user/ dir is the Maildir.
> 
> To get around this, I have to make symlinks on each virtual email.
> 
> What should I check? How do I make it stop appending Maildir to my 
> virtual users path?
> 
> If I set mail_location to the virtual user path, it works fine. But I 
> won't be able to get local mail.
> 
> So I... have mail_location pointing to local users ~/Maildir while 
> UserDatabase/Extrafields feature will overwrite the path for virtual users.
> 
> dovecat-sql.conf:
> password_query = SELECT email as user, password, CONCAT('/home/vmail/', 
> path) as userdb_mail, 5000 as userdb_uid, 5000 as userdb_gid FROM 
> view_users WHERE email='%u';


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