Why is the IMAP server connected to the home directory by default?
The IMAP server has no way of knowing what you might call “mail” as opposed to “some other file”; in fact, you can use IMAP to access any file. The IMAP server also doesn’t know whether your preferred subdirectory for mailbox files is “mail/”, “.mail/”, “Mail/”, “Mailboxes/”, or any of a zillion other possibilities. If one such name were chosen, it would undoubtably anger the partisans of all the other names. It is possible to modify the software so that the default connected directory is someplace else. Please read the file CONFIG for discussion of this and other issues.
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