On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 10:25 PM, Oscar del Rio <delrio@mie.utoronto.ca> wrote:

On 04/ 1/15 10:12 AM, Jeffrey 'jf' Lim wrote:

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My userdb is set up correctly to return home, and mail, and a test with 'doveadm user' verifies this:

# doveadm user user@domain field value uid 1000 gid 1000 home /var/domain/user mail maildir:/var/mail/user@domain

I've reloaded, restarted, stopped and started dovecot again - and even deleted the info files in the mail directory just to be sure - but each and every time I log in with imap, dovecot recreates the files again (dovecot.index.log, dovecot-uidlist, etc.) in the mail directory instead of home.

You forgot to post your config. But the following might help:

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation/Maildir http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation#indexfiles

Thanks. So I guess I had read http://wiki2.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers/Home wrongly (specifically, the statement about the home directory being the "mail user's private state directory"). I thought that state would include all of these files that I see in the maildir as well.

Thanks for the link to http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation#indexfiles. So that points out that the index files are stored by default in the maildir.

I'm having a hard time finding a similar statement for the control files, though (includes dovecot-uidvalidity* ?). http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation/Maildir#Control_files makes no mention of this. I assume this is also the case?

Back to the home directory: so what sort of "state" is stored in the home directory exactly? Are all of the files that I see here in the maildir either control files or index files?

-jf