That example means that if you have in LDAP "mailDirectory=domain.com/username" field, and you want user's home to be /var/vmail/domain.com/username, then you can set mailDirectory=home=/var/vmail/%$ where %$ gets expanded to domain.com/username.
I don't think it's relevant to what you want. On 25.6.2012, at 21.08, Edgar Fuß wrote: >> But that requires Dovecot v2.1. > I was refering to > http://wiki1.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers/Home > which, to my understanding, should apply to 1.2. > I don't understand the Example at the bottom: > >> LDAP with relative directory paths >> >> If your LDAP database uses e.g. mailDirectory = domain/user/, you can use it >> as a base for home directory: >> >> user_attrs = .., mailDirectory=home=/var/vmail/%$ >> Then just use mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir. >
