On 04/08/2025 01:30 EEST jrmu--- via dovecot <dovecot@dovecot.org> wrote:

Greetings Dovecot team/users,

I am trying to use Dovecot to serve Maildir files. The users' email is located in ~/Maildir (in each user's home directory). I tried specifying

mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir

but I get this error:

Aug 4 00:06:34 ch dovecot: imap(username): Error: Relative home directory paths not supported: 0

Are relative home directory paths not supported?

Here is the output of dovecot -n:

dovecot -n

driver = passwd-file } verbose_ssl = yes

1375 bytes received in 0.00 seconds (5.18 MB/s)

-- Aaron Lin jrmu@ircnow.org IRCNow (https://ircnow.org)

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Either add

mail_home = /path/to/home/%u (or something like this)

or your passwd-file needs to returns home directory.

Aki