On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 15:56, Maikel Verheijen wrote:

I do have one questing regarding dovecot: If I login to a mailbox, and the mailbox does NOT exist, and the parent directory does not exist either, I will get disconnected, and dovecot claims it cannot create the directory. (eg: my user blah@test.com has mail directory /var/mail/t/te/test.com/blah/Maildir, and all directories up to /var/mail/t/te/ exist, dovecot does not create the directory test.com/ and on.)

Is this by design, or should this be created by dovecot?

Hmm. Unless you're using one UID for everyone, those directories would have be to be created as root. Also test.com should be created with different owner as blah and blah/Maildir. Maybe I could add a new setting for this, but I'm not sure how to do it without making it too kludgy. There would have to be separation of where user directory structure starts, and uid/gid settings what to use for created directories before them. Something like:

mail_global_dir = /var/mail/t/te/%d mail_global_uid = root mail_global_gid = mail mail_user_dir = /var/mail/t/te/%d/%n

Would be better if the mail_user_dir didn't have to be set at all since it's already in mail_default_env, but the user directory has to be created while still root, and parsing mail_default_env there is kludgy too. Or maybe:

mail_global_dir = /var/mail/t/te/%d/%n

And the last directory would always be assumed to be user directory. That would prevent creating /var/mail-like shared directories though, but I guess there's no need to create those..