[Dovecot] problem with folder creation

[Arne K. Haaje]

Torsdag 28. oktober 2010 01.58.31 skrev John Watson :
> I am running dovecot 1.2.12 on Free BSD 8.1. We also have postfix and a
> version of squirrelmail for the UI.  We are using MySql database to store
> the email account info. I wrote a script to insert about 100K users into
> mysql. Those accounts seem to work well and I'm able to see things like
> 'Drafts', 'Trash' and 'Sent'. Now I am working on code to create new
> accounts - one at a time. The accounts get created and I can send and
> receive email from them but when I go go Drafts, Sent or Trash I get an
> error that says:
> 
> ERROR: Could not complete request.
> Query: SELECT "INBOX.Drafts"
> Reason Given: Mailbox doesn't exist: INBOX.Drafts
> 
> When I go out and look at the mailbox folders for these users I only see
> "cur", "new", and "tmp" whereas on other accounts that work well I also
> see things like INBOX.Drafts etc. I have examined the sql that is
> inserting the accounts in bulk versus the one by one case and can not see
> any differences (other than a new mailbox name/password etc). Everything
> that I'm reading online indicates that Dovecot should just create these
> extra folders on the server and there is really nothing for either an
> admin or a user to do. Does anyone have any more information on this?
> 
>  Thanks in Advance
> John Watson

This may not be exactly what you are looking for, but the auto-create plugin 
can create the folders for you upon login first time to the account.

http://wiki1.dovecot.org/Plugins/Autocreate

plugin {
  autocreate = Trash
  autocreate2 = Junk
  autocreate3 = Sent
  autocreate4 = Drafts
  autosubscribe = Trash
  autosubscribe2 = Junk
  autosubscribe3 = Sent
  autosubscribe4 = Drafts
}

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