dovecot.sieve shows up as a mailbox

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Thu, 21 Mar 2019, Yassine Chaouche via dovecot wrote:
> On 3/21/19 4:13 PM, Aki Tuomi via dovecot wrote:
>>> On 21 March 2019 17:05 Yassine Chaouche via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> [...]
>>> While not very intuitive, I have :
>>> 
>>> mail_home = /var/mail/vmail/%d/%n/dovecot
>>> mail_location = maildir:~/..
>>> 
>>> Which works for me ^^'
>>> 
>>> Yassine.
>> Except it would have the same problem, but with 'dovecot' as folder under 
>> some configurations.
>> 
>> Aki
>
> Well, none of my users have reported they can see that folder. I myself use 
> webmail, thunderbird on my PC and k9 mail on my phone and don't see that 
> folder in any of these clients.

Because the "home" directory is a subdir of the mail location, some 
storage backends try to interprete any entry as some sort of mailbox. This 
is not the case with Maildir, because mailboxes start with a ".", unless 
you use the FS layout, I think. Then there is the potential naming 
conflict, that "dovecot" might become a reserved filename in a Maildir.

Because of these if's and whether's it is safer to configure the mail 
location as subdir of the home dir.

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Steffen Kaiser
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