This is because your mail_home ends with /. It's cosmetic issue. Aki
> On 23/10/2025 12:37 EEST Aki Tuomi via dovecot <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > dovecot mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] _______________________________________________ dovecot mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
