Re: [Dovecot] expire-tool fails if mail_location contains %h
On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 17:36 +0100, Thorsten Vollmer wrote: Hi Timo, not long ago you fixed a bug regarding the expansion of ~/ in mail_location that prevented expire-tool from working correctly. A similar problem exists if mail_location contains %h: expire-tool will use the wrong path to access the mailbox. After replacing %h with ~, expire-tool works as expected. Why are there two variables for the home directory? Maybe the use of %h could be discouraged, sparing you some problems. In earlier versions ~/ expansion didn't work everywhere so %h is used in examples because of that. But nowadays ~/ expansion does work everywhere, so %h is a bit pointless in most places. Also the %h (just like all %variable) expansion happens early in the configuration parsing, so expire-tool can't really be fixed to handle %h. Well, I added a note now to http://wiki.dovecot.org/Variables and removed %h from http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation. I don't really have better ideas how to discourage it. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [Dovecot] expire-tool fails if mail_location contains %h
On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 22:26 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 17:36 +0100, Thorsten Vollmer wrote: not long ago you fixed a bug regarding the expansion of ~/ in mail_location that prevented expire-tool from working correctly. A similar problem exists if mail_location contains %h: expire-tool will use the wrong path to access the mailbox. After replacing %h with ~, expire-tool works as expected. Why are there two variables for the home directory? Maybe the use of %h could be discouraged, sparing you some problems. In earlier versions ~/ expansion didn't work everywhere so %h is used in examples because of that. But nowadays ~/ expansion does work everywhere, so %h is a bit pointless in most places. Also the %h (just like all %variable) expansion happens early in the configuration parsing, so expire-tool can't really be fixed to handle %h. Well, I added a note now to http://wiki.dovecot.org/Variables and removed %h from http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation. I don't really have better ideas how to discourage it. I think this is sufficient. Thanks for the explanation. Thorsten signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
