[Dovecot] Populating mailbox dir

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Thu Jan 20 23:24:55 EET 2011


On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 19:36 -0600, Matt Rude wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:02:48 -0500, Mauricio Tavares wrote: 
> 
> > Who
> populates/creates the initial files and folders in the user
> mailbox?
> 
> Dovecot

No, IMAP clients do that typically.

> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/Autocreate [1] will create new
> folders if the folder doesn't exist when a user logs in.

That's of course possible too. Nothing requires clients to actually use
those folders though.

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