BTW I need to add that even with -v -D there were no complaints from dovecot altmove, and nothing untoward in /var/log/maillog. I also forgot to specify that I'm running on Centos6.2, all updates applied, package was built with a combo of the spec file from ATRPMs and the latest source tarball.
I previously had the ATRPMS 2.1.1 package installed, same issue.
Please feel free to tell me if I'm doing something wrong (ie something has changed between 2.0 and 2.1 re ALT: storage.
Cheers
Alex
I don't know how I did it (I didn't change *any* config directive) but now it magically seems to work after a reboot and umount/remount of the ALT storage area. However I still have that dangling symlink:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 email email 54 Jun 8 22:05 dbox-alt-root -> /home/email_archive/integrafin.co.uk/a/acrow/mailboxes
Where the target doesn't exist...
Cheers
Alex