Re: [Dovecot] Upgrade 1.0->1.2 dbox mysql

On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 08:02 -0800, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:

I renamed the mailboxes that were created yesterday before doing so.
Thank goodness I have less then a hundred imap users.

I wish I understood dovecots directory vars better.

What is mail_location used for?

Points to the directory containing mails. What's under it depends on the mailbox format. For example the "mailboxes" directory you saw is part of dbox.

What is the userdb_home returned from my passdb and userdb used for?

http://wiki.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers/Home

Would userdb_home ever not start with the complete mail_location path?

Usually it's the other way around. mail_location is under home. But it doesn't have to be.