On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 10:40 -0700, John Watson wrote:
> OK I tried that and it still isn't working as expected. I added configuration
> like this to dovecot.conf ( and restated dovecot):
>
> plugin {
> # Here you can give some extra environment variables to mail processes.
> # This is mostly meant for passing parameters to plugins. %variable
> # expansion is done for all values.
> autocreate = INBOX.Trash
> autocreate2 = INBOX.Drafts
> autosubscribe = INBOX.Trash
> autosubscribe2 = INBOX.Drafts
You also need to enable autocreate plugin by setting
mail_plugins = autocreate
> what I would like to see is them getting folders like this:
>
> drwx------ 5 postfix postfix 512 Oct 27 16:33 .INBOX.Drafts
> drwx------ 5 postfix postfix 512 Oct 27 16:33 .INBOX.Sent
> drwx------ 5 postfix postfix 512 Oct 27 16:33 .INBOX.Trash
Uh. You really shouldn't be doing it like that.. More likely what you
want is to not have the INBOX. prefix but rather make that the entire
namespace:
namespace private {
prefix = INBOX.
sep = .
inbox = yes
}
> It seems to work with these 100K users that I created as part of a bulk
> create operation against mysql. The new accounts that I create one at a time
> seem to behave differently.
Well, if 100k users already have those .INBOX.* mailboxes then I guess
you can't really change it anymore. But it just wasn't meant to be done
like that.
> Another option that I am considering at this point is to create these folders
> manually at the same time that I insert the account into mysql. Assuming I
> have a good template and get
> the folder permissions and ownership right is there a problem with that
> approach?
No, that's actually the preferred method. The autocreate plugin wastes
disk i/o at the beginning of each connection because it has to check if
the mailboxes exist.
