On 3/21/19 3:57 PM, Aki Tuomi via dovecot wrote:> This because you have a very common misconfiguration, which is that your mail_home and mail_location are pointing to same directory, and that lead into this problem. > > Solution is of course to use: > > mail_home = /var/mail/vmail/%d/%n > mail_location = maildir:~/Mail > > AkiWhile not very intuitive, I have : mail_home = /var/mail/vmail/%d/%n/dovecot mail_location = maildir:~/.. Which works for me ^^' Yassine.
> On 21 March 2019 17:05 Yassine Chaouche via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org> wrote: > > > On 3/21/19 3:57 PM, Aki Tuomi via dovecot wrote: > > This because you have a very common misconfiguration, which is that your mail_home and mail_location are pointing to same directory, and that lead into this problem. > > > > Solution is of course to use: > > > > mail_home = /var/mail/vmail/%d/%n > > mail_location = maildir:~/Mail > > > > Aki > > While not very intuitive, I have : > > mail_home = /var/mail/vmail/%d/%n/dovecot > mail_location = maildir:~/.. > > Which works for me ^^' > > Yassine.Except it would have the same problem, but with 'dovecot' as folder under some configurations. Aki
On 3/21/19 4:13 PM, Aki Tuomi via dovecot wrote:>> On 21 March 2019 17:05 Yassine Chaouche via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org> wrote: >> >> [...] >> While not very intuitive, I have : >> >> mail_home = /var/mail/vmail/%d/%n/dovecot >> mail_location = maildir:~/.. >> >> Which works for me ^^' >> >> Yassine. > Except it would have the same problem, but with 'dovecot' as folder under some configurations. > > AkiWell, none of my users have reported they can see that folder. I myself use webmail, thunderbird on my PC and k9 mail on my phone and don't see that folder in any of these clients. Yassine.