[Dovecot] maildir creation

matthieu imbert matthieu.imbert at ens-lsh.fr
Thu Apr 21 23:58:53 EEST 2005


Paolo Basenghi wrote:
> I don't know about qmail, but I mantain a very similar configuration 
> (postfix+dovecot+maildrop+ldap).
> I use Maildrop (http://www.courier-mta.org/maildrop/) to deliver mail to 
> the user's virtual mailboxes. Maildrop distribution include a command 
> (maildirmake) that create the maildir structure but not automatically.
> The virtual delivery agent included in Postfix create automatically the 
> maildir structure if it doesn't exists, perhaps qmail can do that too.
> If not, you must create it when you define a new mailbox.
> Cheers
> 

Is it planned for the 1.0 or other versions in the future to 
handle the creation of the mailbox directory, as postfix's 
virtual delivery agent already does ?

I personnally think that this is a big limitation (see my 
post "Failed to create storage with data").



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