Not exactly documented, most people may assume that setting an FTP jail is restricted to absolute paths in Gollem's backend.php.
This is clearly not suitable for servers where users log into virtual sites under different domains. Two styles of jails are then desired:
/path/to/site-root/home/user/path/to/site-root (suitable for site owners)(later...)
Turns out the problem was wrongly posed.
Is for example the current domain running horde available as
'hostspec' => $GLOBALS['something...'],
Possible solutions...
'hostspec' => $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'],
which would howver need to be recast from e.g. 'webmail.example.com' to 'ftp.example.com'
And if ftp-login to explicit IP correctly references the appropriate virtual server configuration for jail path:
'hostspec' => $_SERVER['SERVER_ADDR'],
The last works in my setup at least.