[Dovecot] Auto Create Folders

[Chris L. Franklin]

>> "Dovecot doesn't create the mailbox; your local delivery agent may."

True and False, My MTA creates my inbox but anything else  (meaning 
subfolders) would be upto the imap server to do so. A MTA's job is to 
deliver mail to the inbox or hand it off the another "app" to have it dealt 
with and delivered (or not).

>> "That would be the place to hook in and auto-create mailboxes."

Again True and False, If I wanted to be 100% sure a user had a certain 
mailbox (we'll say a spam folder). Then your half right. I would want my MTA 
to make sure every time a piece of mail came in for that user that it made 
sure. that user had a "spam" folder. But that wouldn't help though if a user 
deleted he mail box then logged out and back in and hadn't gotten a new 
email. So again to be 100% Safe I'd need to

A: Have the MTA check and create the folder if needed (aka that's where this 
email was going to be delivered to).

B: Have my imap server check and create the folder on Auth / login.


-- Chris L. Franklin --



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ben Beuchler" <insyte at emt-p.org>
To: "Chris L. Franklin" <cfranklin at nomadcf.com>
Cc: <dovecot at dovecot.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 5:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Auto Create Folders


> On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 12:34:53PM -0500, Chris L. Franklin wrote:
>
>> To make sure users have certain folders.
>
> Dovecot doesn't create the mailbox; your local delivery agent may.
> (Postfix's virtual LDA does).  That would be the place to hook in and
> auto-create mailboxes.
>
> -Ben
>
> -- 
> Ben Beuchler                                           There is no spoon.
> insyte at emt-p.org                                            -- The Matrix
>