On Dec 29, 2008, at 3:33 PM, Matt Rude wrote:
imap_root is asking you what your Imap server uses as the root of your mailbox. Some servers use INBOX and some like Dovecot don't use one.
Dovecot by default doesn't use one, but it has a configuration
parameter to set it.
I have in my /etc/dovecot.conf file :
mail_location = mbox:%h/mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u
I have it set this way so when a user shells into our mail server and
uses pine / alpine, the mailboxes are in the place that text-based
MUA expects. Configured this way, RoundCube can use its default :
$rcmail_config['imap_root'] = '';
Another advantage to configuring Dovecot this way makes it miss all
the normal garbage in a user's home directory
( .bashrc, .bash_profile, etc. ), since all e-mail is in its own tidy
directory.