[Dovecot] mail_location ?

Yu Chen chen at hhmi.umbc.edu
Fri Aug 17 15:50:13 EEST 2007


> Yu Chen spake the following on 8/16/2007 10:41 AM:
>> Hi, my mail server is running fine. But not sure if I am doing right
>> with "mail_location" in dovecot.conf
>>
>> I am using dovecot-1.0.0-8_56 on RHEL AS 4 Update 5.
>> Our users have a "mail" directory under their home directory(~/mail). I
>> thought the "mail_location" line should be:
>>
>> mail_location =
>> mbox:%h/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/mail_indexes/%d/%n
>>
>> but if I do this, all the mailboxes in the "mail" directory won't show,
>> and a new "mail" folder will be created under "~/mail/", so it is
>> "~/mail/mail" now.
>>
>> if I change it to this:
>>
>> mail_location = mbox:%h:INBOX=/var/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/mail_indexes/%d/%n
>>
>> Everything is fine, is this the supposed behavior?
>>
> Do your clients have a mail directory configured in them like ~/mail? It was a
> common practice on older systems using other imap servers.
>

Yes, that is it. Thanks.

CY


>


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