On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 17:36 +0100, Thorsten Vollmer wrote: > Hi Timo, > > not long ago you fixed a bug regarding the expansion of ~/ in > mail_location that prevented expire-tool from working correctly. A > similar problem exists if mail_location contains %h: expire-tool will > use the wrong path to access the mailbox. After replacing %h with ~, > expire-tool works as expected. > > Why are there two variables for the home directory? Maybe the use of %h > could be discouraged, sparing you some problems.
In earlier versions ~/ expansion didn't work everywhere so %h is used in examples because of that. But nowadays ~/ expansion does work everywhere, so %h is a bit pointless in most places. Also the %h (just like all %variable) expansion happens early in the configuration parsing, so expire-tool can't really be fixed to handle %h. Well, I added a note now to http://wiki.dovecot.org/Variables and removed %h from http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation. I don't really have better ideas how to discourage it.
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