On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 12:37 +0200, Henry C. wrote:

Hi,

I'm switching from UW-imap to dovecot 2.0.1 and was wondering about the mail_location config:

mail_location = mbox:~/.:INBOX=/var/mail/%u

Notice '.' in '~/.' above. This seems to resolve the ~/mail problem when switching from UW-imap (ie, no 'mail' prefix).

doc/wiki/Migration.UW.txt doesn't mention using '~/.', so I was wondering whether there are any gotchas anyone can think of.

So I guess by "~/." you mean same as "~/" which is also the same as "~". The problem with that is, as always, that users can store mails everywhere in the home directory and there may be other non-mail files in there messing things up.

You can either keep it as it is now, or you could think that about finally cleaning things up along this switch. :) The other ways to solve the ~/mail problem is http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Namespaces#Backwards_Compatibility:_UW-IMAP