Dovecot keeps creating info files in mail directory instead of home

[Jeffrey 'jf' Lim]

I've been trying to troubleshoot this for a while now, and I'm really at a
loss.

My userdb is set up correctly to return home, and mail, and a test with
'doveadm user' verifies this:

# doveadm user user at domain
field   value
uid     1000
gid     1000
home    /var/domain/user
mail    maildir:/var/mail/user at domain

I've reloaded, restarted, stopped and started dovecot again - and even
deleted the info files in the mail directory just to be sure - but each and
every time I log in with imap, dovecot recreates the files again
(dovecot.index.log, dovecot-uidlist, etc.) in the mail directory instead of
home.

I've even made sure just in case that the home directory is accessible to
all, and chmod 777, but nothing gets created there. And I dont get any
errors at all in the logs.

I'm on the latest version (2.2.16).

-jf

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