autocreate: We need "auto=init"!

[Timo Sirainen]

On 13 May 2016, at 13:30, Peer Heinlein <p.heinlein at heinlein-support.de> wrote:
> 
> 
> There had been several discussions about the common problem, that
> there's need for a autocreate-function that creates mailboxes ONLY for
> new users that had never been logged in before.
> 
> The reason: Existing users already HAVE "special folders" with localized
> names. Creating "standard names" at every login will produce confusion,
> because then they have multiple Sent-Folders and aren't be able to
> delete them, because they'll always be recreated.
> 
> I would love to have:
> 
> 1) auto = init
> Create the folders ONLY if the whole Storage-Folder (e.g.: ~/Maildir or
> e.g. `/mdbox) is create (=creation of the INBOX itself). Don't create
> any folder if the main INBOX already exists. Since there has to be a
> hook to autoreate a non-existing INBOX it should be able to use this
> action to also create the folders with auto=init at the same time.

You should be able to implement this with http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/Welcome