LAYOUT=fs

Aki Tuomi aki.tuomi at dovecot.fi
Mon Jan 22 10:28:07 EET 2018



On 22.01.2018 00:46, Jungersen, Danjel - Jungersen Grafisk ApS wrote:
> Hi there.
>
> I have read what I could find, but not enough apparently.
>
> I am about to migrate my server to a postfix / dovecot setup.
>
> I have stumbled on the mentioned option and are wondering if I should
> use it.
>
> I have read about it, and I understand the difference, but I cannot
> find anything that guides me to what I should do.
>
> A pro / con list ?
>
> I figure that there are a reason for the default value, but also
> wonder when I will benefit from changing it.
>
> My plan is to (if possible) make spamassasin put spam i the spamfolder
> under the seperate users (serverside), I dont know if that make any
> difference here.
>
> If it makes any difference, I'm running 2.2.27.
>
> Best regards Danjel

LAYOUT=fs with maildir makes maildir use filesystem directories for
folders, so instead of '.mail.folder' it will use 'mail/folder'.

Make sure you put mail_location (or mail from userdb) to something like
maildir:~/Mail

Aki
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