dovecot - Oct 2019 - Home Directory Creation

> On 4 Oct 2019, at 0.47, Asai via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org>
wrote:
> 
> One thing Timo mentioned in this post
(https://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2013-May/090397.html) is: "You could also
change your new user creation to trigger mkdiring the user's home."
> 
> Does anyone know where I can find any documentation on this, or has anyone
done this?
> 
It depends heavily on how do you add users to your system. If you are using LDAP
to store the user information then you can create the home directory at the same
time you add the user to ldap.

Sami

On 10/4/2019 12:58 AM, Sami Ketola via dovecot wrote:
> It depends heavily on how do you add users to your system. If you are 
> using LDAP to store the user information then you can create the home 
> directory at the same time you add the user to ldap.
>
> Sami
Hello, Sami.

Thanks for your reply.

We're just using a SQL backend to store user info.? How does this get 
done with LDAP? Perhaps we can do the same with a SQL backend.

Asai
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> On 04/10/2019 21:34 Asai via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>  On 10/4/2019 12:58 AM, Sami Ketola via dovecot wrote: 
>  
> > It depends heavily on how do you add users to your system. If you are
using LDAP to store the user information then you can create the home directory
at the same time you add the user to ldap.
> >  
> >  Sami 
> > 
>  
>  Hello, Sami. 
>  
>  Thanks for your reply. 
>  
>  We're just using a SQL backend to store user info. How does this get
done with LDAP? Perhaps we can do the same with a SQL backend.
>  
>  Asai
As experiment, you could maybe use mail_lua plugin to create the user directory
on demand,

make a lua script with

function mail_user_created(user)
  -- create directory for user:home
end

See https://doc.dovecot.org/plugin-settings/mail-lua-plugin/ and
https://wiki.dovecot.org/Design/Lua

Aki