[Dovecot] Home directories

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Aug 25 20:46:06 EEST 2010


On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 09:36 +0200, Rainer Frey wrote:
> > Also whenever I try to suggest using a separate home and mail directory,
> > the answer is way too often: "But I'm using virtual users. (They don't
> > have home directories.)"
> > 
> > So I started wondering. Maybe simply renaming the "home" to something
> > else would help here at least some. 
> 
> OTOH you'd need to make distinction between system and virtual users in docs 
> everywhere home is used, like:
> "mail_location: relative paths are based on $home for system users, and on 
> $vhome for virtual users."

That text is wrong though. Relative paths are strongly discouraged. They
probably are based on home, but that's only by chance and may not work
in all situations..




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