On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 10:09 -0400, Bruce Bodger wrote:
"If you're using mbox, giving a path to the INBOX file (eg. /var/mail/ %u) isn't enough. You'll also need to tell Dovecot where the other
mailboxes are and where Dovecot can place its index files. This is
called the "root mail directory", and it must be the first path given
in the mail_location setting."Yet both mbox examples describe otherwise. The first example,
"mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u" has no INDEX
definition and the second example, "mail_location = mbox:/var/mail/%d/ %1n/%n:INDEX=/var/indexes/%d/%1n/%n" shows the INDEX definition last
when the instructions state that it must be first.
I meant that the index files are also under the root mail directory. But this doesn't really matter, so I updated the comment:
# If you're using mbox, giving a path to the INBOX file (eg. /var/mail/%u) # isn't enough. You'll also need to tell Dovecot where the other mailboxes are # kept. This is called the "root mail directory", and it must be the first # path given in the mail_location setting.