On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 10:20 +0100, spamvoll@googlemail.com wrote:

im using ldap. what happens when i add a new ldap user and that user tryes to login to dovecot ? does dovecot create the mailbox on first login? or do i have to send a mail first ?

Dovecot tries to create the missing directories when user logs in. It either succeeds or fails depending on filesystem permissions..