[Dovecot] "virgin" mail accounts

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 16:34, Christian Balzer wrote:
> I'm willing to swear that with the 0.99.10.4 Debian package in my 
> rather extensive tests with mailbox format dovecot created not only
> any missing parental directories but also the INBOX file, but the 
> later I can't prove/test now as I upgraded all respective boxes.
> 
> However 0.99.10.5 will still create (if needed and possible) missing 
> directories for mbox storage, just not an empty INBOX.

Have you set default_mail_env, so that Dovecot actually know where the
INBOX is supposed to be in? If Dovecot has to do guessing it doesn't
guess you want to use /var/mail/user if it doesn't exist.

> But with maildir, it will not even do that, from a test with pop3
> and imap login attempts to a freshly created account that had not 
> received any mails yet:

http://dovecot.org/patches/maildir-autocreate.patch

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