dovecot, winbind and user folders

[Aki Tuomi]

On 23.10.2017 12:24, Kristian Rink wrote:
> Folks;
>
> I'm in the process of migrating an existing IMAP infrastructure to
> something that should be dovecot based. We live inside a Windows AD
> 2012 realm and the servers use winbind for user authentication as well
> as pam configurations to automatically create user home dirs whenever
> the user logs in first.
>
> Can something like this (mailbox is automatically generated whenever
> user logs in first) be done with dovecot too? Any best practises on how
> to work in such setups? I want to keep setup effort required for new
> users as low as possible... ;)
>
> Thanks in advance and all the best,
> Kristian

Dovecot supports that yes, see https://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxSettings

Aki