[Dovecot] Home directories

[Timo Sirainen]

On 25.8.2010, at 21.10, Brandon Lamb wrote:

>>> 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 ?

No, maildir:~/ isn't relative path, since ~/ is expanded to absolute home path. maildir:Maildir is a relative path.