[Dovecot] crash on LIST command

[Andrew Basterfield]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 04:28:36AM +0200, Wouter Van Hemel wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Manually adding the ~/.mail directory with mkdir takes care of the
> problem, but shouldn't this directory be created automatically when it
> doesn't exist? I can't expect every user to log in and first make this
> mail directory before they can use their mail account.

I use procmail to create the directory on delivery of first item of mail

DROPPRIVS=yes
MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail
DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/./

DUMMY=`if [ ! -d $MAILDIR ]; then mkdir $MAILDIR; fi`

--Andrew

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