15 Apr
2004
15 Apr
'04
11:11 a.m.
On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 09:15, Kartik Vaidyanathan wrote:
Dovecot is interested in only one thing - being able to find the user's mail directory. With maildir you need to do mkdir ~user/Maildir, with mbox mkdir ~user/mail.
what does ~ refer to. Pardon my ignorance in unix, i am relatively new to unix.
You have to understand that the "magic" here is not "~", but "~user", and conventionally "~user" refers to the $HOME directory for "user".
Of course, what dovecot really looks for can be specified in its configuration file (so you can also use ~user/.invisimail) or whatever. IIRC it is not specified as "~" or "~user" in the config file, but "$user" or so.
johannes