Dovecot: Relative home directory paths not supported

Asked Sep 17 '20 at 13:28

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I got a problem with dovecot, I have an external disk with all the emails in the Maildir format, I mounted this disk in Linux and for each user, I created a symbolic link (with ln -s) and then i started Dovecot with roundcube, when i go to see Dovecot log it says that he doesent support relative home directory paths. I tried to copy the folder without making a link, but nothing changed. Can please someone help. Thanks

asked Sep 17 '20 at 13:28

jjwrx

Do the links use relative paths? What if you used absolute paths? – Kamil Maciorowski Sep 17 '20 at 13:43
I cant use an absolute path because they can point only at a file, not at a directory, so I can't use them – jjwrx Sep 18 '20 at 17:08
I don't understand. Directory is also a file. Did you mean "regular file"? By definition absolute path starts with / and relative path doesn't. One kind or the other can point to any type of file or even to a nonexistent path. – Kamil Maciorowski Sep 18 '20 at 17:30
Now I suspect maybe you thought about hardlinks. – Kamil Maciorowski Sep 18 '20 at 17:39
Yes maybe is like you say, how can I create an absolute path, just for check if I did it right. – jjwrx Sep 22 '20 at 11:28
What is the exact ln -s … command you used? – Kamil Maciorowski Sep 22 '20 at 11:29

Dovecot: Relative home directory paths not supported

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