[Dovecot] [SUGGESTION] Managesieve: Transparent home dir creation

[Stephan Bosch]

Felix Leimbach wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm using dovecot 2.0-beta4's sieve plugin and it works great but here
> is an idea for improvement:
> 
> When creating the first sieve script for an account whose home dir does
> not yet exist then dovecot *does* create that homedir but the sieve
> client times out. Tried Thunderbird's sieve addon as well as horde's ingo.
> 
> The log says:
> 
> dovecot: managesieve-login: Login: user=<me at example.com>, method=PLAIN,
> rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured
> dovecot: managesieve(me at example.com): sieve-storage:
> sieve_storage_verify_dir(/mnt/data/vmail/dovecot-homedirs/example.com/me//sieve/tmp)
> failed: File exists
> dovecot: managesieve(me at example.com): Fatal: Failed to open Sieve storage.
> 
> Because the homedir was created (great!) when I retry the same action
> then all works perfectly well.
> So why not make that homedir creation transparent so that the clients'
> first try succeeds instead of the second try?
> 

I've updated the Sieve storage implementation to match changes in the 
Dovecot mail storage implementation regarding automatic creation of 
directories. I am hoping I have fixed your problem too. I've did a few 
tests and found no problems so far.

Regards,

Stephan