[dovecot] Re: 0.99.9.1 OpenBSD and mbox

Dominic Marks dom at cus.org.uk
Sat May 3 23:58:34 EEST 2003


On 03/05/2003 23:51, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-05-03 at 22:47, Alvaro Munoz-Aycuens Mtnz. wrote:
> > Hi, compiled perfectly, so the patch of course work ;), but seems that I 
> > had the conf a bit broken, because he doesn't read the new messages in 
> > /var/mail/user, does the line:
> > 
> > #default_mail_env = mbox:~/Mail:INBOX=/var/mail/username
> > 
> > look good?, I also tryed with %h instead of username, the rest of the 
> > conf is pretty standard, I can create folders and so on.
> 
> %h is host name. You probably wanted /var/mail/%u
> 

I think dovecot-example.conf needs to be updated to reflect reality
because at the moment the comments above the default_mail_env line state
that %h means home directory.

Thanks,
-- 
Dominic
 <dom at cus.org.uk> <d.marks at student.umist.ac.uk>



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