[Dovecot] How to give system and virtual users their own mail_location?

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 12:07 +0100, Egbert Jan wrote:
> Hi again.
> 
> I hace Dovecot rc12 working on Mandriva 2007.0 now for system accounts and
> virtual accounts both imap and imaps can be used.
> Th problem now is that I cannot use both types of user at the same time. The
> 'mail_location = ' strings are very different:
> Real system users have their Maildir in /home/%u/Maildir/ but virtual users
> have their maildir in /home/virtual/%d/%n/.
> How can tell dovecot to use the first for pam clients and second for mysql
> authenticated clients?

mail_location = system users location

For virtual users change the dovecot-sql.conf to return "mail" in the
user_query. Like:

user_query = select 'maildir:/home/virtual/%d/%n' as mail, ...

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