At 12AM +0100 on 20/12/12 you (Andreas Meyer) wrote: > Ben Morrow <b...@morrow.me.uk> wrote: > > > Where is that user's home directory, then? (Where is its > > .dovecot.sieve?) That is the path that mail_home should be set to. > > It's /var/spool/vhosts/xyz.de/archiv . It's one file, a mbox. There is no > .dovecot.sieve. This mbox is flushed various times a day by a MUA. > This user archiv is a virtual user and has no home directory, just a mbox.
All Dovecot users should have a unique home directory (which needs to be *a directory*, obviously, and shouldn't be the same as any of the mailbox locations). See http://wiki2.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers/Home . Ben