> On 23/10/2025 12:29 EEST Edmund Lodewijks via dovecot <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
>  
> Hello List!
> 
> I am testing mdbox on Dovecot 2.4.1 (currently using Maildir, but
> thinking of converting).
> 
> I created a test server with a test domain. Installed relevant software
> from default repos on Debian 13:
>  - Postfix
>  - Dovecot 2.4.1
>  - PostfixAdmin
>  - MariaDB
> 
> After I had created an email address, I checked the settings as follows:
> 
> ```
> # doveadm user mail@$REDACTED
> field   value
> uid     5000
> gid     5000
> home    /vhosts/$REDACTED/mail/
> mail_path       /vhosts/$REDACTED/mail//mdbox
> quota_rule      *:bytes=1048576000
> ```
> 
> As you can see, there is a double forward-slash in the mail_path line.
> 
> >From /etc/dovecot/local.d/10-mail.conf:
> 
> ```
> mail_driver = mdbox
> mail_path = ~/mdbox
> ```
> 
> This is based on the official Dovecot docs page (see at the very
> bottom):
> https://doc.dovecot.org/2.4.1/core/config/mailbox_formats/dbox.html
> 
> Is this harmful, or just "cosmetic"? Have I made a mistake somewhere?
> 
> I presume the mail_path line is not even required, as it is the default
> for that mail_driver.
> 
> Thank you for your time and reply.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Edmund Lodewijks
> 
> 
> -- 
> Edmund Lodewijks <[email protected]>
> TZ: UCT+2 / GMT+2

It would be helpful to provide doveconf -n.

Aki

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