Javier Calahorra Novillo wrote: > Hello Bill, > > First of all, thanks a lot for your tip!... but what I wanted > to say was that we need to maintain the Maildir structure > (under, let's say, /mailboxes/javi/Maildir), with new, tmp > and cur,
- Which it does do, separately - but I thot you had that nailed (copious examples in the docs, if not the default config itself). > but the idea is to force exim to create additional > folders, for instance, .myfolder, when creating the mailbox > for the user without it during a delivery. Never checked, as there is always a delivery.. i.e. as soon as we put a virtual user into the DB a 'Welcome' message is fired off. We then check to see it has arrived. The 'rest of' the IMAP structure is created in a similar manner at first access from Dovecot. > I mean, what we > need to know is if exim is able to execute something like > "maildirmake -f myfolder /mailboxes/javi/Maildir/", by using > special commands under the appropriate appendfile transport. Well.... think 'transport' (or router) against your first point - If there is no traffic to be delivered, there is no delivery to be made, ergo there is no 'transport' that will be invoked. Exim would make a poor substitute for a chron job or a DB 'trigger' or (see vpopmail) - one-more-duty of the script that sets up a new user. IOW - the only reason one would do this with Exim *at all* is to let Exim automate the process as part of a delivery and not otherwise have to bother - or forget to do it. > One more thing, the struture under that new folder (myfolder) > must contain also new, tmp and cur, as it has been created by > maildirmake. > As you said - and it is. But created by Exim. I haven't needed to use 'maildirmake' even once in the past 5 or 6 years. ISTR that even Qmail+Vpopmail had scripts that handled that as a byproduct of setting up a new user. More recently, both Courier-IMAP and Exim will create the proper Maildir structure as part of first delivery. And - if there has never been a delivery, there is no need for a Maildir.... In the case of the '.Suspect' folder I sampled you, we actually sent a hand-crafted spam message to some users to trigger creation. For others we used the MUA (Mozilla) to create it. Much depends on the MUA settigns w/r subscriptions, etc.. BTW - all reference to (Dovecot) IMAP use of a maildir. POP is no longer on my sonar since storage became cheaper than listnintabitchin. Best, Bill -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
