Hi Aki,
Thanks for these explanations, they really will help when I make my move to v2.4 as well, even though I'm a much simpler site. >>>>> "Aki" == Aki Tuomi via dovecot <[email protected]> writes: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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]
