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If not provided, it defaults to F</var/mail/$ENV{USER}> and
-F<$ENV{HOME}/Maildir/>.
+F<$ENV{HOME}/Maildir/>. If USER or HOME are not in the environment,
+the corresponding default directory is ignored. So on a system with
+neither of these variables defined, this option will default to an
+empty list.
B<NOTE:> See L<Email::FolderType> for information on how the type of a
folder is identified. In short, the suffix of the folder is analyzed: