[Dovecot] Home directories

[Brandon Lamb]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 7:57 AM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> I've noticed that a lot of people are using e.g.:
>
> mail_location = maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n
>
> Then either they don't have home directory set, or their home directory
> is the same as the maildir. http://wiki.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers/Home
> explains all the problems of not separate home and mail directories.
>
> Also whenever I try to suggest using a separate home and mail directory,
> the answer is way too often: "But I'm using virtual users. (They don't
> have home directories.)"
>
> So I started wondering. Maybe simply renaming the "home" to something
> else would help here at least some. Make all of the documentation use
> only the new word, and add alias for userdb so that the new name and the
> "home" both work (I guess docs would need to keep using the "home" as
> field name for some more years).
>
> So far I've only come up with "vhome" as the replacement name. Other
> ideas?

My $0.02 is userdir over the others, but at the same time home and
maildir made sense to me as it is.

userdir / user_dir
userpath / user_path
userlocation / user_location
userroot / user_root
userbase / user_base