[Dovecot] setting mail_home and vacation

[Andreas Meyer]

Ben Morrow <ben at morrow.me.uk> wrote:

> > >     mail_home = /var/spool/vhosts/%d/%n
> >  
> > ok, done that. I get this in 
> > Error: chdir(/var/spool/vhosts/xyz.de/archiv) failed: Not a directory
> > Error: sieve: failed to stat sieve script:
> > stat(/var/spool/vhosts/xyz.de/archiv/.dovecot.sieve) failed: Not a
> > directory
> > Error: sieve: failed to access user's sieve script ~/.dovecot.sieve
> > (using default script location instead)
> > 
> > I guess, this is just normal for mboxes? archiv at xyz.de is a mbox, per bcc
> > serviced by postfix.
> 
> Where is that user's home directory, then? (Where is its
> .dovecot.sieve?) That is the path that mail_home should be set to.

It's /var/spool/vhosts/xyz.de/archiv . It's one file, a mbox. There is no
.dovecot.sieve. This mbox is flushed various times a day by a MUA.
This user archiv is a virtual user and has no home directory, just a mbox.

> Ben
 
  Andreas