dovecot - Dec 2009 - After upgrading to 1.2 - absolute path questions

Hello.

I have this:

/usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf:
mail_location = maildir:/var/spool/dovecot/domains/%d/%n

/usr/local/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf:
user_attrs = mailQuotaSize=quota_rule=*:storage=%$M 
,=uid=1002,=gid=1002,=home=/var/spool/dovecot/domains/%d/%n

Two absolute paths seems to it is not right(but it works good...)

Right way will be:
mail_location = maildir:%d/%n

=home=/var/spool/dovecot/domains/

?

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Best regards,
Proskurin Kirill

On Dec 8, 2009, at 4:48 AM, Proskurin Kirill wrote:
> /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf:
> mail_location = maildir:/var/spool/dovecot/domains/%d/%n
> 
> /usr/local/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf:
> user_attrs = mailQuotaSize=quota_rule=*:storage=%$M
,=uid=1002,=gid=1002,=home=/var/spool/dovecot/domains/%d/%n
> 
> Two absolute paths seems to it is not right(but it works good...)
With the LDAP home you could use:

mail_location = maildir:~/

Although I wouldn't recommend using maildir = home, better would be:

mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir

http://wiki.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers/Home

Hi Timo,

Okay, I'm confused now...

Here is what we are using with 1.1.19:

password_query = SELECT password, home as userdb_home, 5000 as userdb_uid,
  5000 as userdb_gid FROM mailbox where userid = '%n'

mail_location = maildir:/mail/%h:INDEX=MEMORY

The "/mail/" dir contains 26 NFS mounted partitions.

Will this still work in 1.2?

I have been holding off upgrading because it sounded like I would have
to add the "/mail/" prefix to all the "home" directories in
my user DB,
and with 5 instances of Dovecot running off the same DB, I would have
to shut down the pop/imap servers for the upgrade, something that would
NOT make my boss happy.

However, if I can leave the configs and the database as they are, the
update will not be a big problem.  Please let me know if I can use the
old configs with Dovecot 1.2.x, I would love to be using the latest and
greatest.

And BTW, thanks again for all your hard work, Dovecot is a wonderful
piece of software, and we really appreciate it!
  - Richard