On 11/22/2010 12:48 AM, Egbert Jan van den Bussche wrote:
Op 22-11-2010 1:47, Glen Lee Edwards schreef:
I'm trying to configure Dovecot 2.0.7. In the Dovecot Wiki for Maildirs
it says that Maildirs are almost always located in ~/Maildir. I'm a
Linux end user, not a programmer, so I may be wrong in this; but isn't
the notation "~/" used for system users only to reference their home
page; /home/<user>? If that's the case, then does that mean that
Maildirs can only be used with system users and not with vmail accounts?
The home dir is "home" in the Dovecot context - it CAN be the same as
the system user home dir - but not necessarily. The home dir is used
for storing support files that are needed on a per-user basis, but
aren't "pure" mail files. Things like sieve scripts.
The notation of ~ is accepted shorthand for "home dir" - and since we're
discussing Dovecot, it needs to be interpreted (by the reader of the
docs) as "home dir" in the Dovecot context. Took me a little bit to
grasp it myself.
--
Daniel
