Hi!
We've been noticing that many people are configuring mail_inbox_path.
I assume that for most people this is because debian decided to include it in
their default config, so that it would use /var/mail boxes for user INBOXes.
If your inbox *does not* reside in some weird location, you should *not* set
this setting to any value, instead you can either ensure it's commented out, or
set to empty value. IN PARTICULAR, IT IS **NOT** REQUIRED SETTING.
Setting it to some random weird value like '.' will just cause Problems,
setting it to $MAIL_HOME/ or something else will just be either pointless or
cause problems.
Some most common conversions (please adjust to your environment)
mail_home= /home/vmail/%u
=>
mail_home = /home/vmail/%{user}
mail_home = /home/vmail/%d/%u
=>
mail_home = /home/vmail/%{user|domain}/%{user|username}
or some variant of this.
mail_location = maildir:~/
=>
mail_path = ~/
mail_driver = maildir
mail_location = maildir:/var/srv/foo/%d/%u
=>
mail_path = /var/srv/foo/%{user|domain}/%{user|username}
mail_driver = maildir
In addition you might want to convert
INDEX=~/.index
=>
mail_index_path=~/.index
CONTROL=~/.control
=>
mail_control_path=~/.control
LAYOUT=fs
=>
mailbox_list_layout=fs
A minimal working config is
mail_home=/home/vmail/%{user}
mail_driver=maildir
mail_path=~/maildir
mail_uid=vmail
mail_gid=vmail
##
If you have settings like
namespace other {
location = maildir:/foo/bar
}
this converts into
namespace other {
mail_path = /foo/bar
# optional, if this is matches your top level
mail_driver = maildir
}
Hope this clears out some of the confusion.
Aki
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