[Dovecot] setting mail_home and vacation

[Andreas Meyer]

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

> 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 .

ok, thank you, that was an important step for the mboxes we drive!

> Ben

  Andreas