[Dovecot] After upgrading to 1.2 - absolute path questions

Noel Butler noel.butler at ausics.net
Wed Dec 9 01:26:58 EET 2009


On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 18:20 -0500, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> 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.
> 


Cool, thanks :)




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