[Dovecot] "virgin" mail accounts

[David Sheryn]

On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Christian Balzer wrote:

> Subject: [Dovecot] "virgin" mail accounts

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> It died not very graceful in either case, esp. the later.
> 
> Unless there are very RFC'ish and imperative reasons, I'd suggest
> that dovecot creates all missing bits if possible no matter what the
> storage method or pretends to have encountered an empty mbox file or
> maildir cur/new respectively. 
> 
> The rationale should be obvious, no frantic user calls about "My mail is
> not working" when the answer is "Duh, that's because you never ever 
> received one yet". ;)

Whilst I agree with you, I try, in such circumstances, to arrange for the
account creation system to send a "welcome" email so that there is already
a message waiting for the user when they first log in :)  I can then rely
on Exim to do all the hard work of creating the INBOX properly AND the
user gets a nice warm fuzzy feeling of having something there when they
first log in to play... :)

DHS
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