On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 7:57 AM, Timo Sirainen <[email protected]> wrote: > I've noticed that a lot of people are using e.g.: > > mail_location = maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%n > > Then either they don't have home directory set, or their home directory > is the same as the maildir. http://wiki.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers/Home > explains all the problems of not separate home and mail directories. > > Also whenever I try to suggest using a separate home and mail directory, > the answer is way too often: "But I'm using virtual users. (They don't > have home directories.)" > > So I started wondering. Maybe simply renaming the "home" to something > else would help here at least some. Make all of the documentation use > only the new word, and add alias for userdb so that the new name and the > "home" both work (I guess docs would need to keep using the "home" as > field name for some more years). > > So far I've only come up with "vhome" as the replacement name. Other > ideas?
My $0.02 is userdir over the others, but at the same time home and maildir made sense to me as it is. userdir / user_dir userpath / user_path userlocation / user_location userroot / user_root userbase / user_base
