Thank you for your help, Aki! It turns out my passwd file was in the wrong format and that was causing the errors.
I'll investigate into this a bit more. -- Aaron Lin [email protected] IRCNow (https://ircnow.org) On Mon, Aug 04, 2025 at 07:50:54AM +0300, Aki Tuomi wrote: > > > On 04/08/2025 01:30 EEST jrmu--- via dovecot <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Greetings Dovecot team/users, > > > > I am trying to use Dovecot to serve Maildir files. The users' email is > > located in ~/Maildir (in each user's home directory). I tried specifying > > > > mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir > > > > but I get this error: > > > > Aug 4 00:06:34 ch dovecot: imap(username): Error: Relative home directory > > paths not supported: 0 > > > > Are relative home directory paths not supported? > > > > Here is the output of dovecot -n: > > > > # dovecot -n > > driver = passwd-file > > } > > verbose_ssl = yes > > > > 1375 bytes received in 0.00 seconds (5.18 MB/s) > > > > -- > > Aaron Lin > > [email protected] > > IRCNow (https://ircnow.org) > > _______________________________________________ > > dovecot mailing list -- [email protected] > > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > > > Either add > > mail_home = /path/to/home/%u (or something like this) > > or your passwd-file needs to returns home directory. > > Aki > > _______________________________________________ dovecot mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
