[Dovecot] Home directories

Brandon Lamb brandonlamb at gmail.com
Wed Aug 25 23:10:01 EEST 2010


On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> 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..

Does that mean you do NOT recommend using maildir:~/ as a
mail_location in preference of maildir:/full/path/to/maildir ?


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