[Dovecot] MAILBOXDIR question

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mar 30, 2009, at 3:15 PM, Stewart Dean wrote:

> I'm unclear about where and how this is to be used.  I gather it is  
> to be a new standard, but I didn't seem to find anything about it in  
> the Dovecot Wiki Mail Location page.  There are some words about it  
> in the 1.1.12/3 release notes, but perhaps I'm thick, but they're  
> meta-ambiguous to me.
> Is it meant to be used like this:
>
> mail_location = mbox:MAILBOXDIR=~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
> instead of the current
> mail_location = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u

No, don't use MAILBOXDIR with mbox or maildir. It's primarily useful  
with dbox. But the correct syntax would have been:

mail_location = mbox:~/mail:MAILBOXDIR=mailboxes:INBOX=/var/mail/%u