.dovecot.sieve.log/tmp failed: Not a directory

Aki Tuomi aki.tuomi at open-xchange.com
Thu Mar 19 11:30:23 EET 2020


> On 19/03/2020 11:18 mabi <mabi at protonmail.ch> wrote:
> 
>  
> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> On Thursday, March 19, 2020 9:13 AM, Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi at open-xchange.com> wrote:
> 
> > This is usually prevented by not configuring mail_home and mail_location to same directory:
> >
> > mail_home=/var/vmail/%Ld/%Lu/
> > mail_location=maildir:~/mail
> 
> Thanks for the tip.
> 
> This means that if I now configure "mail_location=maildir:~/mail", I will need to move all mail folders ("." dot directories) including "new,cur,tmp" for the INBOX into the ~/mail direcotry of the specific user on the file system of the server?
> 
> Do I also need to move all the following files into ~/mail too?
> 
> - dovecot.*
> - dovecot-*
> - maildirsize
> - subscriptions

Yes, those need to be moved too. 

Aki


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