[Dovecot] pop3 and home directory

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 10:05 -0800, Shane Kerschtien wrote:
> I have a question regarding dovecot (1.0-test52) and pop3.  I have 
> users that do not have home directories, they only have an inbox in 
> /var/mail.  When they try to pop their email, dovecot tries to create 
> ~/mail and then fails.  Is there a way around this or will all email 
> users need to have a home directory?

They need a home directory. Dovecot wants to save index files somewhere.

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