dovecot - Mar 2010 - extraneous mail folder created

I'm trying to set up dovecot on a Fedora box for about 5 users, I have a
raid 5 array that is used for home folders etc mounted on /home, and I've
created a directory /home/mail, which I have used a sym link to map
/var/mail to. I've created folders for each of the users with relevant
permissions and edited the dovecote config with:-

namespace private {
separator = /
prefix = "#dbox/"
location = dbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
inbox = yes
hidden = yes
list = no   # for v1.1+
}
namespace private {
separator = /
prefix location = dbox:/var/mail/%u/mail
}

This all seems to work with the exception that when a imap client attaches to
dovecot an empty folder called 'mail' is created in the users home
directory. so for client jenni, whist all her emails etc are stored in
/home/mail/jenni/ for INBOX and /home/mail/jenni/mail/ for folders etc, an empty
folder is created as /home/jenni/mail/

Any help appreciated

John

On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 11:19 +0000, John Moorhouse wrote:
> namespace private {
> separator = /
> prefix = "#dbox/"
> location = dbox:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
> inbox = yes
> hidden = yes
> list = no   # for v1.1+
> }
> namespace private {
> separator = /
> prefix > location = dbox:/var/mail/%u/mail
> }
That seems overly complicated. Just use one namespace:

namespace private {
  separator = /
  prefix   location = dbox:/var/mail/%u/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
  inbox = yes
}

(and if still possible, I'd remove the :INBOX= part too so that it goes
to /var/mail/%u/mail/INBOX/)
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