[Dovecot] Problem: dovecot-lda doesn't auto-create folders

[Robert Schetterer]

Am 01.10.2012 11:17, schrieb Karim 'Kasi Mir' Senoucci:
> Hello everyone,
> I recently updated to dovecot 2.0.19 (in fact, I updated the whole
> system to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, I am using the dovecot from the Ubuntu
> packages) and just today found out that the dovecot-lda for some reason
> doesn't auto-create missing folders anymore as it did with my old
> installation (1.0.10).
> 
> I have a "system users" layout and send my mails through a user-specific
> procmail filter. Every delivery in those filters is done via dovecot-lda
> using a line list this:
> 
>> |$DELIVER -d archive -m lists.hylafax-`date "+%Y%m"`
> 
> where $DELIVER is set to
> 
>> DELIVER="/usr/bin/sudo /usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-lda"
> 
> (I use the sudo because some of the procmail lines deliver the mail to
> folders in a different user's mailbox.)
> 
> This works fine for all users, unless the mail folder to be delivered to
> doesn't exist yet. Here's an example of such a delivery attempt:
> 
>> Oct 01 10:57:09 lda: Debug: auth input: archive
>> system_groups_user=archive uid=1002 gid=1002 home=/home/archive
>> Oct 01 10:57:09 lda(archive): Debug: Effective uid=1002, gid=1002,
>> home=/home/archive
>> Oct 01 10:57:09 lda(archive): Debug: Namespace : type=private,
>> prefix=, sep=/, inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes
>> location=maildir:/home/archive/Maildir
>> Oct 01 10:57:09 lda(archive): Debug: maildir++:
>> root=/home/archive/Maildir, index=, control=,
>> inbox=/home/archive/Maildir, alt=
>> Oct 01 10:57:09 lda(archive): Debug: none: root=, index=, control=,
>> inbox=, alt=
>> Oct 01 10:57:09 lda(archive): Debug: Destination address: xxx at xxxx.de
>> (source: user at hostname)
>> Oct 01 10:57:09 lda(archive): Debug: Namespace :
>> /home/archive/Maildir/.lists.hylafax-201210 doesn't exist yet, using
>> default permissions
>> Oct 01 10:57:09 lda(archive): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions
>> from /home/archive/Maildir: mode=0755 gid=-1
>> Oct 01 10:57:09 lda(archive): Debug: Namespace :
>> /home/archive/Maildir/.lists.hylafax-201210 doesn't exist yet, using
>> default permissions
>> Oct 01 10:57:09 lda(archive): Debug: Namespace : Using permissions
>> from /home/archive/Maildir: mode=0755 gid=-1
>> Oct 01 10:57:09 lda(archive): Info:
>> msgid=<201210010954.02813.hylafax_resp at earthshod.co.uk>: save failed
>> to open mailbox lists.hylafax-201210: Mailbox doesn't exist:
>> lists.hylafax-201210
>> Oct 01 10:57:09 lda(archive): Info:
>> msgid=<201210010954.02813.hylafax_resp at earthshod.co.uk>: saved mail to
>> INBOX
> 
> Can anyone tell me what goes wrong here and how to fix it? From what I
> could find out dovecot-lda should auto-create those mailbox folders, but
> somehow it doesn't. Any help is appreciated.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Kasi Mir

my bet goes here

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LDA

parameters

lda_mailbox_autocreate
lda_mailbox_autosubscribe


-- 
Best Regards
MfG Robert Schetterer