On 11/22/2010 11:07 AM, Daniel L. Miller wrote: > 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. maybe this will illustrate: $ cd /tmp # go someplace else, just so we can show that ~/ is MY_HOME_DIR
p...@paulandcilla:/tmp$ pwd /tmp p...@paulandcilla:/tmp$ cd ~/ p...@paulandcilla:~$ pwd /home/pbc p...@paulandcilla:~$ cd ~/Maildir p...@paulandcilla:~/Maildir$ pwd /home/pbc/Maildir p...@paulandcilla:~/Maildir$ so we basically cd to /tmp, show we are there, cd ~/ and show that it takes me to MY homedir, then cd to ~/MAILDIR and in fact that is my MAILDIR folder. -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu User #12459
