<adcx <at> server101.com> writes:

from docs/mail-storages.txt:

"Also as a special case, if MAILDIR environment exists, maildir storage is

used with the directory

specified in it."

Forgive me if this seems obvious, but is this talking about setting MAILDIR as

an enivornment variable? I

have it set on my system in both /etc/profile and ~/.bash_profile:

MAILDIR=/path/to/maildir/ export MAILDIR

and have confirmed this worked by running 'echo $MAILDIR'. I've logged the

user in question out and then in

again, as well as restarting dovecot but it still defaults to checking

~/Maildir when the user logs in.

Setting the location using default_mail_env is not an option here as I need

the fallback behaviour that

occurs when default_mail_env is not set.

Any advice appreciated.

You can use the userdb extra_fields to change settings per account. See http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-November/017830.html for example.