With following configuration:
userdb static {
args = uid=10000 gid=10000 home=/home/vmail/domain.tld/%u/./
mail=maildir:~/maildirs
}
and accompanying passdb passwd-file consisting of only user and password, for
example
test:{PLAIN}test:
dovecot will access
home=/home/vmail/domain.tld/test/home/vmail/domain.tld/test/maildirs
instead of
home=/home/vmail/domain.tld/test/maildirs
dovecot 1.0rc27 (+ flock and convert plugin diffs), openbsd 3.9, i386
any extra info (ktrace, etc.) - if needed
dovecot -n:
base_dir: /var/dovecot/
protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s
ssl_listen: *
ssl_ca_file: /etc/ssl/cert_bundle.pem
ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/ca_ppgk/certs/fetch_crt.pem
ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/ca_ppgk/private/fetch_key.pem
verbose_ssl: yes
login_dir: /var/dovecot/login
login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login
login_greeting: Dovecot IMAP server ready.
login_greeting_capability(default): yes
login_greeting_capability(imap): yes
login_greeting_capability(pop3): no
valid_chroot_dirs: /var/mail:/home/regular:/home/vmail
verbose_proctitle: yes
first_valid_uid: 1999
first_valid_gid: 10
mail_location: mbox:~/Mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
mail_debug: yes
fsync_disable: yes
lock_method: flock
maildir_copy_with_hardlinks: yes
mbox_read_locks: flock
mbox_write_locks: flock
mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3
mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3
imap_client_workarounds(default): outlook-idle delay-newmail
imap_client_workarounds(imap): outlook-idle delay-newmail
imap_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-idle
pop3_uidl_format(default):
pop3_uidl_format(imap):
pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %08Xu%08Xv
pop3_client_workarounds(default):
pop3_client_workarounds(imap):
pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh
auth default:
mechanisms: plain login
verbose: yes
debug: yes
passdb:
driver: passwd-file
args: /etc/dovecot.passwd
passdb:
driver: bsdauth
userdb:
driver: static
args: uid=10000 gid=10000 home=/home/vmail/domain.tld/%u/./
mail=maildir:~/maildirs
userdb:
driver: passwd
socket:
type: listen
client:
path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
mode: 432
user: postfix
group: postfix
master: