Hi!

We've been noticing that many people are configuring mail_inbox_path.

I assume that for most people this is because debian decided to include it in their default config, so that it would use /var/mail boxes for user INBOXes.

If your inbox *does not* reside in some weird location, you should *not* set this setting to any value, instead you can either ensure it's commented out, or set to empty value. IN PARTICULAR, IT IS **NOT** REQUIRED SETTING.

Setting it to some random weird value like '.' will just cause Problems, setting it to $MAIL_HOME/ or something else will just be either pointless or cause problems.

Some most common conversions (please adjust to your environment)

mail_home= /home/vmail/%u => mail_home = /home/vmail/%{user}

mail_home = /home/vmail/%d/%u => mail_home = /home/vmail/%{user|domain}/%{user|username} or some variant of this.

mail_location = maildir:~/ => mail_path = ~/ mail_driver = maildir

mail_location = maildir:/var/srv/foo/%d/%u => mail_path = /var/srv/foo/%{user|domain}/%{user|username} mail_driver = maildir

In addition you might want to convert

INDEX=~/.index => mail_index_path=~/.index

CONTROL=~/.control => mail_control_path=~/.control

LAYOUT=fs => mailbox_list_layout=fs

A minimal working config is

mail_home=/home/vmail/%{user} mail_driver=maildir mail_path=~/maildir mail_uid=vmail mail_gid=vmail

If you have settings like

namespace other { location = maildir:/foo/bar }

this converts into

namespace other { mail_path = /foo/bar

optional, if this is matches your top level

mail_driver = maildir }

Hope this clears out some of the confusion.

Aki