[Dovecot] Dovecot + Sieve - and passdb/userdb

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sun Sep 9 06:02:11 EEST 2007


On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 12:26 -0700, Daniel L. Miller wrote:
> > If I were you, I'd make home and mail point to a different
> directory,
> > which could be as simple as home=/var/mail/%d/%n
> > mail=/var/mail/%d/%n/Maildir. This way, dovecot will only look for mail
> > in the $HOME/Maildir, but still can do administrative stuff in $HOME.
> >   
> What "administrative stuff"?

Currently sieve scripts, in future possibly some other files. Don't
think "home" as a traditional user's home directory, but rather as a
directory where Dovecot can safely create whatever files it wants
without having them show up as mailboxes to user.

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