[Dovecot] Maildir Skeleton

[Scott Silva]

Sebastian Ganschow spake the following on 8/7/2007 9:38 AM:
> Patrick Ben Koetter schrieb:
>> * Sebastian Ganschow <sebastian at ganschow.name>:
>>> Peter Hessler schrieb:
>>>> If your OS uses /etc/skel to build new users from (many do), you can 
>>>> create it there.  Most OSs that use /etc/skel merely copy files from 
>>>> there, then chown them to the appropriate user and group.  Perms 
>>>> shouldn't be modified.
>>> It would work if the users weren't virtual. There are only virtual users on
>>> the mail system.
>> That's no problem either. The question is: Are you looking for an automated
>> process or does "cp -a template_maildir/ /srv/mail/newuser/" the job?
> 
> It should be automated.
> 
> A possible solution would be a cronjob, which checks every few minutes if
> there is a new user without a maildir. But this requires that the user
> hasn't logged on before the cronjob is executed.
> 
> Another approach is to check every maildir for an existing .Spam folder and
> a .dovecot.sieve file and create both if they don't exist.
> 
> If dovecot couldn't do this by itself, I'm going to realize it with a cronjob.
> 
> Sebastian
> 
What are you using to create users?
MAybe you could add something to the user creation system.
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