[Dovecot] lda_mailbox_autocreate and lda_mailbox_autosubscribe

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Thu Mar 24 19:05:18 EET 2011


On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 17:17 +0100, Frank Bonnet wrote:

> I use real unix users on the mailhub and I would like to
> automate home directories creation for new users.

This is done automatically, as long as filesystem permissions allow it.
But since you're using real unix users, this may be troublesome unless
you set the parent directory permissions to something like 01777.

> I found lda_mailbox_autocreate and lda_mailbox_autosubscribe
> statements in 15-lda.conf file ( dovecot 2.0.11 ) which seem to be the right
> things for me :-)
> 
> Does those two statements means that if a home directory
> does not exists it will be created at the first login of the
> new user ?

Nope.




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