On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 19:03 +0200, Attila Nagy wrote: > On 09/28/2010 05:09 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 08:29 +0200, Attila Nagy wrote: > > > >> Sadly, I'm one of them. Currently during the provisioning it's not > >> guaranteed that a user will have a mailbox in the file system, so > >> autocreating it during pop logins is a bless. :) > > But POP3 doesn't use anything except INBOX, so why do you need to > > autocreate them there? I'd think it's useful only with IMAP. > > > > > You mean the four folders, or the inbox itself? For the inbox itself: if > there is no such directory, the login will fail and the user will look > for errors.
INBOX is always auto-created. In earlier versions there were a couple of bugs that caused it to fail though. > For the other folders: we have a crappy webmail, which > messes directly with the maildir, and that also doesn't autocreate the > mailboxes, so if the user only logs in via pop and webmail, and I only > create inbox, he will miss trash, drafts and sent... > > Weird, I know. :) Oh well. That also means then that my future autocreate plugin won't work with your webmail, because it doesn't physically create the mailboxes.
