[Dovecot] Auto Create Folders

[Mark E. Mallett]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 09:30:30AM -0500, Chris L. Franklin wrote:
> >>"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).

Pedantically speaking, an MTA's job is to talk to other MTAs.  

It's the job of an MDA (aka LDA) to do the delivery.

A given piece of software might act as an MTA and an MDA at times, but
they are different pieces of the email system's architecture.

mm