[Dovecot] Autocreation the home folder

[Joan]

The issue is more with legacy installs being upgraded than with new setups,
on the later I might adjust the settings and start using the recoomended
layout.
On the alternative you suggest, if I understood properly, you are changing
the setup to mdbox
>>> mail_location = mdbox:%h/mdbox:INDEX=/mail/**indexes/%2Ln/%Ln
If there was a method to move automatically the mails (preferibly not
moving to mdbox) to a subfolder, I could change to the recommended layout
my current install.
Otherwise it seems the only current solution is to:
1.- Stop dovecot
2.- Change to recommended layout the config
3.- Via a script move the content to the new location
4.- Start dovecot with the new layout..

Am i right?

Joan



2013/5/15 Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>

> Dovecot autocreates the mail directory, but apparently it doesn't
> currently autocreate the home directory if it's located elsewhere. I'm not
> sure if it's really worth the trouble to change the code to do that.
> Ideally the mail directory would be under the home directory and this
> wouldn't be a problem. You could also change your new user creation to
> trigger mkdiring the user's home.
>
> On 15.5.2013, at 15.57, Joan <aseques at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Sorry for this bump, but isn't there a better solution to have those
> > folders than to be watching the logs for warnings and recreate them?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Joan
> >
> >
> > 2013/5/14 Joan <aseques at gmail.com>
> >
> >> Yes, all folder tree has vmail:vmail as the owner, and dovecot can
> create
> >> the folders without issues.
> >> I verified that when manually creating those folders, the warnings
> >> disappear, the main issue still remains though.
> >> When I send the first mail to a user he has this layout:
> >>  cur
> >>  dovecot.index.cache
> >>  dovecot.index.log
> >>  dovecot-uidlist
> >>  dovecot-uidvalidity
> >>  dovecot-uidvalidity.5191f7ad
> >>  maildirsize
> >>  new
> >>  tmp
> >>
> >> Sadly ,there's no home folder, so I've no other option than to create
> the
> >> folder by hand?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 2013/5/14 Angel L. Mateo <amateo at um.es>
> >>
> >> El 13/05/13 17:50, Steffen Kaiser escribió:
> >>>
> >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> >>>> Hash: SHA1
> >>>>
> >>>> On Mon, 13 May 2013, Joan wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi Steffen, that was an error I hadn't spotted (copypasting error).
> >>>>> Still
> >>>>> after changing mail_home to the proper value (/home/vmail/%d/%n/home)
> >>>>> the
> >>>>> errors in the logs are the same
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Am I supposed to create the folders via an external script? Or is
> >>>>>> there any option to make this automatic.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>> As far as I know, the home directory is not created automatically. You
> >>>> will need to use an external script.
> >>>>
> >>>>         I have this config:
> >>>
> >>> mail_home = /mail/users/mailboxes/%2Ln/%Ln
> >>> mail_location = mdbox:%h/mdbox:INDEX=/mail/**indexes/%2Ln/%Ln
> >>>
> >>>        In my config, mail_home is also auto created (I have dovecot
> >>> 2.1.16)
> >>>
> >>>        Do you have any error? Has dovecot user permissions to create
> >>> direcotories/files under your /var/mail?
> >>>
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> >>
> >>
>
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