[Dovecot] setting mail_home and vacation

[Ben Morrow]

At  8PM +0100 on 19/12/12 you (Andreas Meyer) wrote:
> 
> I set up vacation with sieve. We have mboxes and maildirs and in dovecot.conf
> mail_location =
> mbox:/var/spool/vhosts/%d/dovecotprivate/%n:INBOX=/var/spool/vhosts/%d/%n
> 
> Error: User archiv at xyz.de doesn't have home dir set, disabling
> duplicate database
> Dec 19 20:37:03 lda(archiv at xyz.de): Error: sieve: sieve script file
> path ~/.dovecot.sieve is relative to home directory, but home
> directory is not available.
> Dec 19 20:37:03 lda(archiv at xyz.de): Error: sieve: failed to access
> user's sieve script ~/.dovecot.sieve (using default script location
> instead)
> 
> When I set
> mail_home = mbox:/var/spool/vhosts/%d/%n:INBOX=/var/spool/vhosts/%d/%n
> 
> I get this for mboxes in the log: 
> Error: user archiv at xyz.de: Relative home directory paths not
> supported:
> mbox:/var/spool/vhosts/xyz.de/archiv:INBOX=/var/spool/vhosts/xyz.de/archiv

mail_home should be set to the path to a directory, not a mailbox
location. You want just

    mail_home = /var/spool/vhosts/%d/%n

Dovecot is interpreting the initial 'mbox:' part as the start of a
relative path.

Ben