Re: control and index

This will cause issues at least with Sieve filtering, as it creates a directory starting with dot ".", which will be misinterpreted as an IMAP folder.

See https://doc.dovecot.org/2.4.2/core/config/auth/users/virtual.html#home-direc... or specifically https://doc.dovecot.org/2.4.2/core/config/auth/users/virtual.html#ways-to-se...

On Thu, 20 Nov 2025 at 22:40, Marek Greško via dovecot <dovecot@dovecot.org> wrote:

thanks for answers. Aki already helped me with this problem. The document on mail_path and mail_home is full of examples which do not match my scenario. I had to set /var/maildir/${user} for both variables.