The spirit of IMAP4 is to let the MUA completely 'run the ship' (account).
Recent Internet-Drafts (i.e.: R. Gellens Qualcomm) to the IETF show a
willingness to strengthen that resolve including IMAP-Push and many other
ideas which if ever implemented will likely cause the creation of yet more
folders at the whim of newer MUAs on new miniature wireless devices etc. It
doesn't yet follow that there is a complete syntax consensus among MUAs. :o)
Once configured as an IMAP account, the MUA auto-creates the accounts' main
folders on the server and can then create hundreds of additional folders at
the whim of the user. (Good IMAP-ACL-aware MUA's can do a whole lot more.)
It's almost like a branding signature, the way the automatic accounts are
created by the various MUA brands. The favourite is "Sent Items/sent/Sent".
If you use Kmail, OE and Thunderbird will each automatically add sent
messages to their own style of folder by default, after initaily checking
for and creating if needed their own style of "sent folder".
INBOX - Auto-created
Drafts MUA-created
"Sent" Various permutations are created by the MUA
Trash MUA-created
In short, after the INBOX is created at the server side, leave the rest to
the user because the game of predicting what the user and their MUA will
want and do themselves has no winners.
best...
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Aaron Stone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "DBMAIL Developers Mailinglist" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 11:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Dbmail-dev] Auto Create folders with new accounts?
INBOX (literally, all capitals, per the imap rfc's) is always created
when it is needed and for all new users created by dbmail-users. The
others are often auto-created by mail user agents. What email client are
you using? Perhaps it can be configured to auto-create these mailboxes.
I think that DBMA has some good options for this, too -- Mike?
Aaron
On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 19:11 -0700, kbaker wrote:
I would like to have DBMail autocreate the following folders when a new
account is created:
- Inbox
- Drafts
- Sent
- Trash
Are there any settings in the dbmail.conf that could do this?
Or should I create some kind of script that adds the folders via SQL or
something.
Thanks,
Kevin
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