Re: [exim] Additional folders when using maildir format

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Javier Calahorra Novillo
CC: exim users, W B Hacker
Subject: Re: [exim] Additional folders when using maildir format
On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Javier Calahorra Novillo wrote:

> 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, 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.


If you ask Exim to do a maildir delivery to
/mailboxes/javi/Maildir/.myfolder, it will create the .myfolder
directory and the necessary new, tmp, and cur directories under that
directory. However, it will not automatically create a maildirfolder
file.

> 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. One more
> thing, the struture under that new folder (myfolder) must contain also
> new, tmp and cur, as it has been created by maildirmake.


It is not possible to run a separate command.

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service
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