[Dovecot] not creating homedirs when using maildir format

Hi all,

I'm in the process of setting up dovecot, but for some reason, it's not creating home directories if they don't already exist.

I have the following line in dovecot.conf:

default_mail_env = maildir:~/mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u

I have set permissions on /home to allow everyone full access, so creating directories in /home by dovecot non-root processes shouldn't be a problem. If I instruct dovecot to use mbox format, directories are created without a problem. The problem only seems to exist with maildir.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks and regards,

Ben Halicki Information Technology Officer Macquarie Textiles Group Limited Phone: +61 2 6043 0235 Fax: +61 2 6041 1321