Yu Chen spake the following on 8/16/2007 10:41 AM: > Hi, my mail server is running fine. But not sure if I am doing right > with "mail_location" in dovecot.conf > > I am using dovecot-1.0.0-8_56 on RHEL AS 4 Update 5. > Our users have a "mail" directory under their home directory(~/mail). I > thought the "mail_location" line should be: > > mail_location = > mbox:%h/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/mail_indexes/%d/%n > > but if I do this, all the mailboxes in the "mail" directory won't show, > and a new "mail" folder will be created under "~/mail/", so it is > "~/mail/mail" now. > > if I change it to this: > > mail_location = mbox:%h:INBOX=/var/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/mail_indexes/%d/%n > > Everything is fine, is this the supposed behavior? > Do your clients have a mail directory configured in them like ~/mail? It was a common practice on older systems using other imap servers.
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