> Did you've restarted Dovecot after changing the conf file? Yes, few times.
> What's in the logs? Maybe you need to enable mail_debug. I've enabled now mail_debug, and looks like Dovecot doesn't see new index location: Jun 11 12:36:16 dovecot: imap(e-mail@domain): Debug: maildir++: root=/var/vmail/domain/user, index=, control=, inbox=/var/vmail/domain/user # dovecot -n | grep location mail_location = maildir:/var/vmail/%d/%u:INDEX=/media/ephemeral0/%u > What's the permission of /media? Currently it's 777 and vmail:mail, which is a user for storing e-mails, but I tried with dovecot:dovecot which Dovecot daemon is running. # ls -la / drwxrwxrwx 3 vmail mail 4096 Apr 8 21:29 media # ls -la /media drwxrwsrwx 2 vmail mail 4096 Jun 11 11:41 ephemeral0 -- View this message in context: http://dovecot.2317879.n4.nabble.com/Change-index-location-problem-tp48468p48473.html Sent from the Dovecot mailing list archive at Nabble.com.