Auto-subscribe but not auto-create

[Aki Tuomi]

> On November 17, 2017 at 8:05 PM azurit at pobox.sk wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> is it, somehow, possible to auto-subscribe a folder IF it exists but  
> NOT auto-create it if it doesn't exists?
> 
> We have folder 'Spam' which we are using to store messages marked as  
> spam but users are not subscribing to it (most of them simply don't  
> know what it means to subscribe a folder) and are complaining about  
> missing e-mails (which are in 'Spam' folder but they don't see them).  
> Even more, some users don't want from us to move spams into Spam  
> folder so our sieve scripts are set to move spams into INBOX if 'Spam'  
> folder doesn't exists (such users simply remove 'Spam' folder - this  
> is why we don't want to auto-create it).
> 
> Thanks.

You know if you auto-subscribe it, then MUAs will actually expect it to be there?

Aki