Re: autocreate: We need "auto=init"!

On 13 May 2016, at 13:30, Peer Heinlein p.heinlein@heinlein-support.de wrote:

There had been several discussions about the common problem, that there's need for a autocreate-function that creates mailboxes ONLY for new users that had never been logged in before.

The reason: Existing users already HAVE "special folders" with localized names. Creating "standard names" at every login will produce confusion, because then they have multiple Sent-Folders and aren't be able to delete them, because they'll always be recreated.

I would love to have:

1. auto = init Create the folders ONLY if the whole Storage-Folder (e.g.: ~/Maildir or e.g. `/mdbox) is create (=creation of the INBOX itself). Don't create any folder if the main INBOX already exists. Since there has to be a hook to autoreate a non-existing INBOX it should be able to use this action to also create the folders with auto=init at the same time.

You should be able to implement this with http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/Welcome