[Dovecot] How the does "new" autocreate method works?

[Attila Nagy]

On 05/23/13 14:08, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On 23.5.2013, at 15.06, Attila Nagy <bra at fsn.hu> wrote:
>
>> On 05/23/13 14:01, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>>> On 23.5.2013, at 14.26, Attila Nagy <bra at fsn.hu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm trying to migrate from the deprecated autocreate plugin to the mailbox { auto }setting without success.
>>>> What do I forget, or misunderstand?
>>>>
>>>> I deliver mails via LMTP and log in on IMAP, neither of them create the folders other than the inbox itself.
>>> The new method is creating the folders lazily to disk. They will be visible in IMAP session, but they won't be actually created to disk until the folder is opened.
>>>
>>> Your config looks correct to me.
>>>
>> Exactly what I see, but I thought this was an error. Could you please clarify this somewhere appropriate?
>> BTW, this is a problem for us, because we have a custom software accessing the maildir, which won't see these until created.
>> Would it be possible to set the laziness of this process and provide the possibility to create the folders on disk?
> This changed, because the previous behavior was unnecessarily accessing the disk all the time at each login. I wasn't really planning on adding the old behavior back anymore. Maybe you could create the folders when the user is created?
>
Very good point, will do.

Thanks.