[Dovecot] many users maildir access

[Timo Sirainen]

On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 18:30 +1000, VK wrote:
> Hi All,
> Is it possible when using Dovecot and MySQL to tell dovecot
> maildir:%h/MailDir -- Yes I know but please read on before you answer this
> one :->
> 
> We have users directories layer structured because of the filesystems 32k
> directory limit ,
> eg: user foobar at example.com's home mail directory is:
> /mailhosts/example.com/f/fo/foo/foobar
> 
> I know Dovecot takes  maildir:%d/%u/MailDir    but as you see this will not
> work, 

mail_location = maildir:%d/%1n/%2n/%3n/%n/MailDir

> so I guess I'm after the defination of %h, is that home as in system
> users home, or home as is like our setup?

%h expands to home directory given by your userdb configuration. So if
you're using mysql and you have the directory in "maildir_path" field,
you can return:

user_query = select ..., maildir_path as home, ...

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