[Dovecot] Maildir and home location

[Florian Lindner]

Hello!

My current mail setup looks like that:

MTA is postfix, MDA is maildrop. Each system user configures mail delivery using 
the .mailfilter of maildrop to arbitrary maildirs in his home. For each maildir 
a POP3/IMAP account can be configured, currently I use courier-imap/-pop and 
think about replacing it by dovecot.

AFAIK with dovecot each account has a home and maildir assigned which should 
not be equal neither should a home dir be used for mulitple accounts.

My problem is where to put these homedirs? System users have full SSH access 
on the machine. I would really prefer to put them somewhere where the users 
could delete them (if they need to reset or delete their account). Optimal 
would be in the maildir itself, but...

What are your suggestions?

Regards,
Florian