On 27.11.2012, at 8.48, Dominic Malolepszy wrote:
> I have observed that after deleting a mailbox and removing the user from the
> userdb, immediately accessing the mail account via POP3/IMAP causes Dovecot
> to auto create an empty mailbox, because the userdb/passdb details are still
> cached for 10minutes. Is there any option to tell Dovecot POP3/IMAP not to
> auto create the mailbox if it does not exist?
Change the parent directory permissions so that the mkdir() fails.
> Alternatively and less desirably is there a mechanism for telling Dovecot to
> expire a userdb/passdb cached entry?
v2.1.9+ has: doveadm auth cache flush user@domain