[Dovecot] Migrating to Maildir -> path

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sun May 13 17:32:28 EEST 2007


On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 15:14 +0100, Andy Shellam wrote:
> Hi Wouter,
> 
> We do this already, whereby mail is stored like, for user at domain.com, in 
> /some/path/domain.com/user.  The paths are stored in a virtual user 
> database in PostgreSQL which Dovecot authenticates against.  And yes, 
> /Maildir is redundant, unless you plan on storing any non-mail stuff in 
> the same user directories (e.g. web pages or something.)

It's not necessarily redundant. It's good to have a home directory that
isn't the same as the mail directory. See
http://wiki.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers#homedirs

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