dovecot - Sep 2010 - Alternate mail_location prefix for homedir

Hi,

I'm switching from UW-imap to dovecot 2.0.1 and was wondering about the
mail_location config:

mail_location = mbox:~/.:INBOX=/var/mail/%u

Notice '.' in '~/.' above.  This seems to resolve the ~/mail
problem when switching from
UW-imap (ie, no 'mail' prefix).

doc/wiki/Migration.UW.txt doesn't mention using '~/.', so I was
wondering whether there are
any gotchas anyone can think of.

Thanks
Henry

On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 12:37 +0200, Henry C. wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm switching from UW-imap to dovecot 2.0.1 and was wondering about the
mail_location config:
> 
> mail_location = mbox:~/.:INBOX=/var/mail/%u
> 
> Notice '.' in '~/.' above.  This seems to resolve the
~/mail problem when switching from
> UW-imap (ie, no 'mail' prefix).
> 
> doc/wiki/Migration.UW.txt doesn't mention using '~/.', so I was
wondering whether there are
> any gotchas anyone can think of.
So I guess by "~/." you mean same as "~/" which is also the
same as "~".
The problem with that is, as always, that users can store mails
everywhere in the home directory and there may be other non-mail files
in there messing things up.

You can either keep it as it is now, or you could think that about
finally cleaning things up along this switch. :) The other ways to solve
the ~/mail problem is
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Namespaces#Backwards_Compatibility:_UW-IMAP