[Dovecot] How the does "new" autocreate method works?

[Timo Sirainen]

On 23.5.2013, at 15.06, Attila Nagy <bra at fsn.hu> wrote:

> On 05/23/13 14:01, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> On 23.5.2013, at 14.26, Attila Nagy <bra at fsn.hu> wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm trying to migrate from the deprecated autocreate plugin to the mailbox { auto }setting without success.
>>> What do I forget, or misunderstand?
>>> 
>>> I deliver mails via LMTP and log in on IMAP, neither of them create the folders other than the inbox itself.
>> The new method is creating the folders lazily to disk. They will be visible in IMAP session, but they won't be actually created to disk until the folder is opened.
>> 
>> Your config looks correct to me.
>> 
> Exactly what I see, but I thought this was an error. Could you please clarify this somewhere appropriate?
> BTW, this is a problem for us, because we have a custom software accessing the maildir, which won't see these until created.
> Would it be possible to set the laziness of this process and provide the possibility to create the folders on disk?

This changed, because the previous behavior was unnecessarily accessing the disk all the time at each login. I wasn't really planning on adding the old behavior back anymore. Maybe you could create the folders when the user is created?