I'm trying to configure Dovecot 2.0.7. In the Dovecot Wiki for Maildirs it says that Maildirs are almost always located in ~/Maildir. I'm a Linux end user, not a programmer, so I may be wrong in this; but isn't the notation "~/" used for system users only to reference their home page; /home/<user>? If that's the case, then does that mean that Maildirs can only be used with system users and not with vmail accounts? Glen
Glen Lee Edwards schrieb:> I'm trying to configure Dovecot 2.0.7. In the Dovecot Wiki for Maildirs > it says that Maildirs are almost always located in ~/Maildir. I'm a > Linux end user, not a programmer, so I may be wrong in this; but isn't > the notation "~/" used for system users only to reference their home > page; /home/<user>? If that's the case, then does that mean that > Maildirs can only be used with system users and not with vmail accounts?In this case "~/" is the home_directory for your mail users which can be (and usually is) different from the system users. Maildir can be used for system and vmail users. My mail home_directory is /var/mail so ~/Maildir is translated to /var/mail/domain.tld/mailbox/Maildir
Op 22-11-2010 1:47, Glen Lee Edwards schreef:> I'm trying to configure Dovecot 2.0.7. In the Dovecot Wiki for Maildirs > it says that Maildirs are almost always located in ~/Maildir. I'm a > Linux end user, not a programmer, so I may be wrong in this; but isn't > the notation "~/" used for system users only to reference their home > page; /home/<user>? If that's the case, then does that mean that > Maildirs can only be used with system users and not with vmail accounts? > > GlenAs Patrick mentioned already (and to speak with Timo) ALL user should have a homedir. This is mostly /home/<user> for real system users. Virtuial users still should have a home dir. On my system that is a NFS share on /disk/mail/vmail/<domain.tld>/<user> and the Maildir is in /disk/mail/vmail/<domain.tld>/<user>/Maildir. It could had been something colmpletely different! Egbert Jan