auto-create folder from sieve

[Andrew Morgan]

On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Ken Murchison wrote:

>
>
> Andrew Morgan wrote:
>
> > Is it possible for sieve to auto-create folders that don't already exist
> > when it tries to fileinto?  I've got a sieve script like the following:
> >
> > require "fileinto";
> >
> > # Filter spam
> > if header :contains "X-Spam-Flag" "YES" {
> >         fileinto "INBOX.junk-mail";
> > }
> >
> >
> > But the folder "INBOX.junk-mail" must already exist or sieve throws an
> > error in syslog (Fileinto: Mailbox does not exist) and delivers it to
> > INBOX.
> >
> > It would simplify our setup and management of sieve scripts if we could
> > have the folder automatically created if it does not already exist.  Is
> > there a way to enable this?
>
> It would be possible to autocreate on fileinto, but how do you determine
> that this is what the user wants vs. the mailbox name being typed
> incorrectly.

That is certainly an issue, but the mail would not be lost in any case,
just misplaced.

> What really should happen is that a warning should be spit out at
> upload/parse time telling the user that the mailbox doesn't exist.

We're using .sieve files in user home directories, so that isn't really an
option here.

	Andy