[Dovecot] After upgrading to 1.2 - absolute path questions

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Dec 9 01:20:37 EET 2009


On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 08:58 +1000, Noel Butler wrote:
> So, in using...
> 
> user_query = select 26 as uid, 26 as gid, '/var/vmail/%d/%1n/%1.1n/%
> 2.1n/%n' as home, <snip>
> 
> mail_location = maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%1n/%1.1n/%2.1n/%n/Maildir   
> 
> ...  that is no longer the preferred way? 

I don't think it's ever been the preferred way, since it's just
duplication of configuration. :) But you can keep doing it this way if
you want to. The only thing that v1.2 doesn't allow anymore is relative
home directory paths, and your home dir isn't relative.

> Obviously things work fine now, but may this change/break in the future?

No, it won't break.

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