doveadm search -A tries to create mailboxes

[Bill Shirley]

Yes, I have:
   mailbox Trash {
     special_use = \Trash
     auto        = subscribe
# next needs dovecot 2.2.20
#    autoexpunge        = 2 weeks
   }
   mailbox SystemFolders {
     auto        = create
#    auto       = subscribe
   }


However, I would think that only applies to mail delivery or POP3/IMAP access.  Are you saying that all doveadm -A commands will 
create Maildir and 'auto=create/subscribe' folders?  Why did it not create '~/Maildir/SystemFolders'?  I did hit Ctrl-C as soon 
as I saw what doveadm was doing.

Again, I don't think SEARCH should create any directories.  Maybe have a doveadm CREATE for that purpose?  I am not the creator 
nor a developer of Dovecot; just one user with an opinion.  If they think this is the correct behavior I'm fine with that.

Bill


On 1/7/2016 2:22 AM, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
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> On Wed, 6 Jan 2016, Bill Shirley wrote:
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>> The man page doesn't mention that 'search' updates anything.
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> SEARCH has to open the Maildir. Dovecot has the feature to create mailboxes on the fly on access, not only on write accesses. If
> Dovecot wouldn't, you would get lots of "Invalid Mailbox" errors, because -A enumerates users, you want to skip.
>
> Actually, if you cannot limit -A with Timo's hints, you might try to override the userdb setting via -o command line options
> with a passwd-file, in which you list only "valid" users.
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>> BTW, now I have:
>> /var/cache/akmods/Maildir/.Trash
>
> you probably have autocreate for Trash? But you will see Maildir for all users anyway.
>
> - -- Steffen Kaiser
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