Andrew Nady writes:
On July 8, 2008, Sam Varshavchik wrote:If there's no $HOME/Maildir, then where does the mail go?Exactly my point, the pickle is that courier is not able to create a $HOME or a $HOME/Maildir.
No, you missed the point. An IMAP server's job is to provide access to mail in existing accounts via IMAP. If there's no $HOME/Maildir, then where is the mail that the IMAP server supposed to read? If you do not have a $HOME/Maildir, then you, obviously, do not have a mail account to provide access to. It's not the IMAP server's job to create accounts. The technical specification for IMAP may be found here: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3501.html. No part of the IMAP server's job involves creating mail accounts. Furthermore, it is dangerous to do so. If, for example, mail accounts are supposed to reside on an NFS server, but the NFS mount failed previously, the IMAP server will happily go ahead and start scribbling over the local disk.
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