autocreate ONLY for new Users

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Tue, 14 Mar 2017, plataleas wrote:

> We are currently migrating accounts to Dovecot. The existing accounts do
> have special folders with different names. (i.e. sent, sent-mail)
>
> The autocreate-function of "special folders" is useful. However we need
> this feature ONLY for new users. The existing accounts have a mapping
> for their own "special folders".
>
> Did someone manage to implement this ? Are there workarounds?

Workaround might be the thread "Auto create & subscribe folder from 
Userdb".

Configure Dovecot to autocreate / autosubscribe and configure the userdb 
of existing users to override auto with no .

You should test however, if some mail clients get confused with the new 
special use folders. When I switched them on several years ago, I had no 
complains about this. So, I guess, this "advice" (special use tag) is 
taken into account during account creation only.

I'm not sure if you can override "special_use = \Sent", too.

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Steffen Kaiser
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