Hi all Anybody had some succès with dovecot mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:LAYOUT=fs On ispconfig3? I was only able to find a post on the subject but it's doesn't look like it was a succès... https://www.howtoforge.com/community/threads/where-to-set-layout-fs-in-ispconfig.86327/ Looks like he changed the user_query in /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf Code: user_query = SELECT email as user, maildir as home, CONCAT( maildir_format, ':', maildir, '/', IF(maildir_format='maildir','Maildir',maildir_format)),':LAYOUT=fs' as mail, uid, gid, CONCAT('*:storage=', quota, 'B') AS quota_rule, CONCAT(maildir, '/.sieve') as sieve FROM mail_user WHERE (login = '%u' OR email = '%u') AND `disable%Ls` = 'n' AND server_id = '1' And He didn't follow up if he was able to make it work at the end. But there is also a password_query that he didn't change. Does it need to be changed also??? Jessy pointed out that there was a mistake in his code and after correcting it, I tried it as follow in /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf Code: user_query = SELECT email as user, maildir as home, CONCAT( maildir_format, ':', maildir, '/', IF(maildir_format='maildir','Maildir',maildir_format),':LAYOUT=fs')as mail, uid, gid, CONCAT('*:storage=', quota, 'B') AS quota_rule, CONCAT(maildir, '/.sieve') as sieve FROM mail_user WHERE (login = '%u' OR email = '%u') AND `disable%Ls` = 'n' AND server_id = '1' with partial succes Code: server1 root # doveadm user test@@test.com field value uid 5000 gid 5000 home /var/vmail/test.com/test mail maildir:/var/vmail/test.com/test/Maildir:LAYOUT=fs quota_rule *:storage=104857600B sieve /var/vmail/test.com/test/.sieve servier1 root # Even if it report as LAYOUT=fs the folders are created as follow: Code: drwx------ 5 vmail vmail 4096 Sep 2 17:23 .test3 drwx------ 5 vmail vmail 4096 Sep 2 17:23 .test3.test4 BTW: it's a new server and a new email box and there was a reboot after the dovecot-sql.conf was modified Any procedure or code example, comments on the matter would be very appreciated. Many thanks Spazio