autocreate ONLY for new Users

[Aki Tuomi]

welcome plugin is already present in 2.2.24, so in that sense, no need
to upgrade. Other than that, it should be rather straightforward upgrade.

Aki

On 15.03.2017 13:07, plataleas wrote:
> 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