dovecot - Nov 2008 - expire-tool fails if mail_location contains %h

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.

Regards,
Thorsten

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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.

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