I have a recently deployed dovecot server and am readying another. Upon updating to rc12, I note the following change in the default dovecot.conf file:
-default_mail_env = mbox:/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/dovecot/%u +mail_location = maildir:~/.maildir
Integrating this change to my local dovecot.conf:
# formerly used default_mail_env = maildir:%h/Maildir # dovecot default mail_location = maildir:~/.maildir mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
With unix users of the form:
myuser:x:505:100:My User:/home/myuser:/sbin/nologin
each having ~/Maildir, should I:
use the ~/.maildir form over ~/Maildir.
use the ~ instead of %h
do anything for dovecot's benefit (reindex, etc.) besides a per-user 'mv ~/Maildir ~/.maildir' if 1).
I came straight from an ancient sendmail mbox setup to dovecot, so I want to do things the best-pracitce IMAP/dovecot way. Thanks.