autocreate ONLY for new Users

[plataleas]

Thanks Aki!!

The welcome plugin sounds like the best workaround. To implement this we
would need to upgrade our Dovecot installation:

dovecot-core:
  Installed: 1:2.2.24-1~bpo8+1
  Candidate: 1:2.2.27-2~bpo8+1

Are there special recommendations for the upgrade process (in addition
to the Dovecot NEWS file)? Any special steps we should be aware of
during the upgrade?

Is it that simple "apt-get upgrade dovecot-core"?

your experiences are highly appreciated! This is our first Dovecot
upgrade :-)



On 03/15/2017 11:43 AM, Aki Tuomi wrote:
> 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