dovecot - Sep 2004 - Dovecot, Outlook Express and new accounts

I have come across a strange situation, involving new accounts. I am 
running Dovecot 0.99.10-5 on Fedora Core 2. Dovecot is configured to use 
pam for authentication, and the dovecot pam service is configured to use 
pam_mkhomedir.

When an account is created and the user logs in through SquirrelMail, 
there is no problem. The standard folders are available - Inbox, Drafts, 
Sent Items and Trash.

When logging in through Outlook Express first, it gives the following 
error:-

The server did not respond to this IMAP command before the connection 
was terminated.

Configuration:
    Account: mail.server
    Server: mail.server
    User name: username
    Protocol: IMAP
    Port: 143
    Secure(SSL): 0
    Code: 800ccc0f

A packet trace shows the following:-

<<< * OK dovecot ready.
 >>> 008E CAPABILITY
<<< * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT 
LITERAL+ IDLE CHILDREN LISTEXT LIST-SUBSCRIBED STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN
<<< 008E OK Capability completed.
 >>> 008F LOGIN "username" "password"
<<< 008F OK Logged in.
 >>> 008G IDLE
<<< + idling
 >>> DONE
<<< 008G OK Idle completed.
008H LIST "" "*"

Connection to host lost.

My suspicion that Outlook Express is not intelligent enough to create 
the folders, although the sudden connection drop might indicate a bug.

If it is not a bug, is there a workaround?

Regards

--
Chris Hills
IT Services
North East Worcestershire College

news.gmane.org wrote:
>
>
> If it is not a bug, is there a workaround?
My workaround is to send a test email every time I create a new account. 
My mail server (exim) auto-creates this required dir.

Marius

> My suspicion that Outlook Express is not intelligent enough to create 
> the folders, although the sudden connection drop might indicate a bug.
> 
> If it is not a bug, is there a workaround?
> 
> Regards
> 
> --
> Chris Hills
> IT Services
> North East Worcestershire College
> 
> 

I had the same problem with Outlook Express but I changed my dovecot.conf to
default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u and Outlook Express creates 
the folders for new users without having to do a test send first.

Colin M