On 19 Aug 2013, at 00:42 , Steffen Kaiser skdovecot@smail.inf.fh-brs.de wrote:
See http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation/Maildir I never used it myself, but if you specify mail_location, you should be able to drop "/Maildir" from the path. If Dovecot is to automagically detect the mailbox format, you need Maildir.
If you want to use different mail locations, you need to have your userdb return another mail_location setting for (some) users. E.g. configure the default / usual mail_location in the conf files and have SQL return a field mail with the proper location for that particular user.
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation
"2. mail userdb field overrides mail_location setting."
Thanks, I'v read those, but I don't know what the scope of that setting is.
I have mail_location set to milder:~/Maildir at the top-level of the dovecot.conf.
If I try to set it again in the userdb
userdb { args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext driver = sql default_fields= uid=vpopmail gid=vchkpw mail_location=/usr/local/virtual/%u }
Well, I thought that threw an error last time I tried it. Hmm. OK.
<watches the logs with suspicion for a while>
OK, never mind. I don't know what I did last time, that does seem to work.
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