Eric wrote:

I installed dovecot from scratch and compiled it from 1.0.0 source. Installed in /usr/local. Now everytime I launch dovecot it creates and uses /usr/local/var/lib/dovecot and /usr/local/var/run/dovecot directories. For the latter I found the modifications to do in dovecot.conf for using /var/run/dovecot instead, but for the former I see nothing about such directory in dovecot.conf. What happens ? How can I configure it so that dovecot uses /var/lib/dovecot instead ?

Default locations must be set before compilation using "./configure" You need to run "./configure --localstatedir=/var" run "./configure --help" for all configure options

Actually thees are general make options, but i recommend to look at dovecot specific too. ...and. it is good idea too, to adjust other file locations (like --bindir, --libexecdir, etc) to match your system layout.

Thank you

Eric

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