5 Feb
2006
5 Feb
'06
1:50 p.m.
On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 17:22 -0500, David Friedlander wrote:
joeuser:x:61375:20:Joe User:/home/joeuser:/bin/false::maildir:/home/joeuser/Maildir:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/joeuser/ .. My question: Although this is a functioning work-around, is there something I am not understanding or why is auto-detect not working?
The reason is simply that /var/spool/mail isn't used for maildirs by almost anyone, so Dovecot's autodetection code doesn't even try to detect it. Standard INBOX location for Maildir is ~/Maildir.