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
> 
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