Auto create folders

Andrew Morgan morgan at orst.edu
Fri Jan 23 13:32:51 EST 2015


On Fri, 23 Jan 2015, John Mok wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have been using Cyrus IMAP 2.4.17 on Debian 7 with Kerberos / GSSAPI 
> authentication.
>
> I would like to auto-create one or more folders upon mailbox creation, 
> e.g. a spam folder to store potential spam mails for spamassassin 
> learning.
>
> On the other hand, how to prevent such folders from deletion by users?
>
> Thanks a lot.

How do you create mailboxes now?

We create mailboxes using a Perl script, and that script also creates a 
"junk-mail" folder with an annotation to delete messages older than 30 
days.

You can also alter the folder's permissions to prevent users from deleting 
them.

Does that help?

 	Andy


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