[Dovecot] Alternate mail_location prefix for homedir

Henry henka at cityweb.co.za
Sun Sep 5 12:43:59 EEST 2010


> So I guess by "~/." you mean same as "~/" which is also the same as "~".
> The problem with that is, as always, that users can store mails
> everywhere in the home directory and there may be other non-mail files
> in there messing things up.

I understand and agree with your second sentence.

The issue though is that if I use '~' or '~/' without the '.' suffix I get
the following error:

Error: user henry: Initialization failed: Initializing mail storage from
mail_location setting failed: No home directory for system user. Can't
expand ~ for mail root dir in: ~:INBOX=/var/mail/henry

It seems to have a problem expanding '~' or '~/', but not '~/.'

Regards
Henry



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