[Dovecot] expire-tool fails if mail_location contains %h
Hi Timo,
not long ago you fixed a bug regarding the expansion of ~/ in mail_location that prevented expire-tool from working correctly. A similar problem exists if mail_location contains %h: expire-tool will use the wrong path to access the mailbox. After replacing %h with ~, expire-tool works as expected.
Why are there two variables for the home directory? Maybe the use of %h could be discouraged, sparing you some problems.
Regards, Thorsten
On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 17:36 +0100, Thorsten Vollmer wrote:
Hi Timo,
not long ago you fixed a bug regarding the expansion of ~/ in mail_location that prevented expire-tool from working correctly. A similar problem exists if mail_location contains %h: expire-tool will use the wrong path to access the mailbox. After replacing %h with ~, expire-tool works as expected.
Why are there two variables for the home directory? Maybe the use of %h could be discouraged, sparing you some problems.
In earlier versions ~/ expansion didn't work everywhere so %h is used in examples because of that. But nowadays ~/ expansion does work everywhere, so %h is a bit pointless in most places. Also the %h (just like all %variable) expansion happens early in the configuration parsing, so expire-tool can't really be fixed to handle %h.
Well, I added a note now to http://wiki.dovecot.org/Variables and removed %h from http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation. I don't really have better ideas how to discourage it.
On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 22:26 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 17:36 +0100, Thorsten Vollmer wrote:
not long ago you fixed a bug regarding the expansion of ~/ in mail_location that prevented expire-tool from working correctly. A similar problem exists if mail_location contains %h: expire-tool will use the wrong path to access the mailbox. After replacing %h with ~, expire-tool works as expected.
Why are there two variables for the home directory? Maybe the use of %h could be discouraged, sparing you some problems.
In earlier versions ~/ expansion didn't work everywhere so %h is used in examples because of that. But nowadays ~/ expansion does work everywhere, so %h is a bit pointless in most places. Also the %h (just like all %variable) expansion happens early in the configuration parsing, so expire-tool can't really be fixed to handle %h.
Well, I added a note now to http://wiki.dovecot.org/Variables and removed %h from http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation. I don't really have better ideas how to discourage it.
I think this is sufficient.
Thanks for the explanation.
Thorsten
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Thorsten Vollmer
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Timo Sirainen