Courier migration to dovecot

[j.emerlik]

I wrote because I read on the official website Dovecot.org:

"Home directory shouldn't be the same as mail directory with mbox or
Maildir formats (but with dbox/obox it's fine). It's possible to do that,
but you might run into trouble with it sooner or later. "

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

Regards,
Jack


2017-06-23 16:25 GMT+02:00 Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo at gmail.com>:

>
>
> On 23 June 2017 at 15:57, j.emerlik <j.emerlik at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I'm almost ready to migrate Courier to Dovecot 2.2.31 but I have one
>> question about home and mail directory.
>>
>> It's good idea to have same directory form home and mail ?
>>
>> Which scenerio will be better and why ?
>>
>> For example:
>>
>> A)
>> Home: /home/doamin/user1
>> Mail: /home/doamin/user1
>>
>> B)
>> Home: /home/doamin/user1/home
>> Mail: /home/doamin/user1
>>
>> C)
>> Home: /home/doamin/user1/
>> Mail: /home/doamin/user1/mail
>>
>> Thanks & regards,
>> Jack
>>
>
> Just wondering why you have to debate this, because it should depend on
> where your mail is currently stored. Dovecot will find it when you set the
> correct mail_location and the correct authentication - userdb/passdb - in
> whatever option you chose in /conf.d/10-auth.conf. I'd only be worried
> about whether users who left mail on the server are forced to fetch them
> again or if the migration is transparent.
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
> Nairobi,KE
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> "Oh, the cruft."
>