I wrote because I read on the official website Dovecot.org:

"Home directory shouldn't be the same as mail directory with mbox or Maildir formats (but with dbox/obox it's fine). It's possible to do that, but you might run into trouble with it sooner or later. "

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

Regards, Jack

2017-06-23 16:25 GMT+02:00 Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com>:

On 23 June 2017 at 15:57, j.emerlik <j.emerlik@gmail.com> wrote:

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Hi, I'm almost ready to migrate Courier to Dovecot 2.2.31 but I have one question about home and mail directory.

It's good idea to have same directory form home and mail ?

Which scenerio will be better and why ?

For example:

A) Home: /home/doamin/user1 Mail: /home/doamin/user1

B) Home: /home/doamin/user1/home Mail: /home/doamin/user1

C) Home: /home/doamin/user1/ Mail: /home/doamin/user1/mail

Thanks & regards, Jack

Just wondering why you have to debate this, because it should depend on where your mail is currently stored. Dovecot will find it when you set the correct mail_location and the correct authentication - userdb/passdb - in whatever option you chose in /conf.d/10-auth.conf. I'd only be worried about whether users who left mail on the server are forced to fetch them again or if the migration is transparent.

-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223 "Oh, the cruft."

Thx Christian, Yes, I read about it but I wonder why that is so and why couldn't be A or B. Best regards, Jack

2017-06-23 16:31 GMT+02:00 Christian Kivalo <ml+dovecot@valo.at>:

Am 23. Juni 2017 14:57:59 MESZ schrieb "j.emerlik" <j.emerlik@gmail.com>:

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Hi, I'm almost ready to migrate Courier to Dovecot 2.2.31 but I have one question about home and mail directory.

It's good idea to have same directory form home and mail ? No. Which scenerio will be better and why ?

For example:

A) Home: /home/doamin/user1 Mail: /home/doamin/user1

B) Home: /home/doamin/user1/home Mail: /home/doamin/user1

C) Home: /home/doamin/user1/ Mail: /home/doamin/user1/mail The recommended way to set up home and mail directory is example C.

https://wiki2.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers/Home In fact it depends a bit what storage format you will be using. See also https://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation

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Thanks & regards, Jack

-- Christian Kivalo