21 Dec
2007
21 Dec
'07
8:11 a.m.
On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 13:28 -0500, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:
Dovecot doesn't assume anything based on '/' suffix. In fact it always just strips it, so there's no difference whatsoever if it's there or not.
Not true.
Using either dovecot-1.1_beta11 or dovecot-1.0.0 (from hg).
Using mail_location = ~/test-mail/, it errors out with:
Well, okay, autodetection is a different thing. :) I didn't think of it. But even there Dovecot doesn't itself check if there's a '/' suffix. It's just that stat("test-mail/") happens to return an error if test-mail is a file, while it works for a directory.
If you specify the maildir: or mbox: prefix (as is preferred), then the suffix is always removed.