[Dovecot] Maildir Skeleton

[Tom Diehl]

On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Robert Schetterer wrote:

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> Christian Schmidt schrieb:
>> Hello Sebastian,
>>
>> Sebastian Ganschow, 07.08.2007 (d.m.y):
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>>> Scott Silva schrieb:
>>>> What are you using to create users?
>>>> MAybe you could add something to the user creation system.
>>> I'm using postfixAdmin but I don't want to modify it.
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>> What you could do is create a wrapper script that
>> 1. invokes postfixAdmin and after that
>> 2. creates the maildirs as needed.
>>
>> Keep it simple!
>>
>> Gruss/Regards,
>> Christian Schmidt
>>
> That would mean to sudo apache to create maildirs
> this would be complex to code in postfixadmin ( have to be php crack )
> cause its not designed to create maildir that way, also it would break
> the chance to have the web gui , database , smtp server on different
> physical machines.....and end ito very complex setups.
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> postfixadmin sends a welcome mail, the idea to create needed stuff
> with that mail is ok , and it work if you have maildrop/procmail as
> transport ( using a global script )

FWIW, it also works using the dovecot lda and sieve. Sending the welcome
message from pfa causes postfix to make the necessary maildir structure
when the message gets delivered.

Hope this helps,

Regards,

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