autocreate ONLY for new Users

[Aki Tuomi]

You could also use welcome plugin to execute a custom script on first login.

Aki

On 15.03.2017 09:28, plataleas wrote:
> thanks for the feedback!
>
> Userdb would be an option, however we would need to extend our LDAP
> Schema with an additional "autocreate flag". Modifying the LDAP import
> scripts, this is quite a task. Another option we were thinking of is
> creating the special folders by a script right after user creation.
>
> By far the best and easiest solution would be a flag to auto-create the
> special folders ONLY on first login.
>
> Is there any chance to get this feature?
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
>
> On 03/15/2017 07:38 AM, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> -- Steffen Kaiser