Dovecot keeps creating info files in mail directory instead of home

[Oscar del Rio]

On 04/ 1/15 10:12 AM, Jeffrey 'jf' Lim wrote:
> 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.

You forgot to post your config. But the following might help:

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation/Maildir
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation#indexfiles