[Dovecot] 2.1.5 problem with mail_location

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Apr 25 23:46:08 EEST 2012


On 25.4.2012, at 20.56, postmaster wrote:

> I've been advised to set :
> mail_location = maildir:~/
> as the home directory is found through a sql request.
> 
> this has been working perfectly up to and including 2.1.4
> 
> from 2.1.5 however this setting gives cause to a problem :
> instead of looking in the mail home eg /var/mail/domain/user\@domain/ dovecot is looking for mail in /var/mail/domain/user\@domain/~
> 
> the '~' directory is created upon the first request for mail and all future mail transactions in dovecot is done relative to this folder.

Yeah, it's a bug. Fixed and added to tests so it won't break in future: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.1/rev/249c1c89d9d3




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