[Dovecot] not creating homedirs when using maildir format

[Ben Halicki]

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