[Dovecot] Turning on autocreate of maildirs - how?

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Tue, 11 Mar 2014, Graham Leggett wrote:

> On 11 Mar 2014, at 7:32 PM, Graham Leggett <minfrin at sharp.fm> wrote:
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>> Giving the different prefix a try on a test account, a mailbox directory is created, but the rest of the maidir directories (new, cur, tmp) aren't created, and the error below is returned.
>>
>> The key is the message "Error: user test at sharp.fm: Initialization failed: namespace configuration error: There can be only one namespace with inbox=yes"
>
> This is somewhat of a moot point - the addition of maildir: breaks maildrop:
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> Mar 11 17:35:36 monica postfix/pipe[25561]: 10E29804B4: to=<test at sharp.fm>, relay=maildrop, delay=0.21, delays=0.15/0.02/0/0.03, dsn=4.3.0, status
> =deferred (temporary failure. Command output: /usr/bin/maildrop: Unable to change to home directory. )
>
> Is there a way to get dovecot autocreate to work without fiddling with the paths? For example, declare a global maildir default?

What's your UserDB? In some message you've mentioned LDAP. With "Attribute 
templates" you can prefix the location with "maildir:". If you do not 
return mail in the userdb, the global mail_location is used.

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Steffen Kaiser
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