[Dovecot] setting mail_home and vacation

[Ben Morrow]

At 12AM +0100 on 20/12/12 you (Andreas Meyer) wrote:
> Ben Morrow <ben at morrow.me.uk> wrote:
> 
> > 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.

All Dovecot users should have a unique home directory (which needs to be
*a directory*, obviously, and shouldn't be the same as any of the
mailbox locations). See http://wiki2.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers/Home .

Ben