[Dovecot] default_mail_env auto-detect woes for maildir users

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 17:22 -0500, David Friedlander wrote:
> joeuser:x:61375:20:Joe User:/home/joeuser:/bin/false::maildir:/home/joeuser/Maildir:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/joeuser/
..
> My question: Although this is a functioning work-around, is there
> something I am not understanding or why is auto-detect not working?

The reason is simply that /var/spool/mail isn't used for maildirs by
almost anyone, so Dovecot's autodetection code doesn't even try to
detect it. Standard INBOX location for Maildir is ~/Maildir.

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