[Dovecot] Upgrade 1.0->1.2 dbox mysql

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Dec 29 23:45:56 EET 2009


On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 08:02 -0800, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:

> I renamed the mailboxes that were created yesterday before doing so.  
> Thank goodness I have less then a hundred imap users.
> 
> I wish I understood dovecots directory vars better.
> 
> What is mail_location used for?

Points to the directory containing mails. What's under it depends on the
mailbox format. For example the "mailboxes" directory you saw is part of
dbox.

> What is the userdb_home returned from my passdb and userdb used for?

http://wiki.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers/Home

> Would userdb_home ever not start with the complete mail_location path?

Usually it's the other way around. mail_location is under home. But it
doesn't have to be.
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