Bug#541739: cyrus-imapd-2.2: Please add Autocreate patch

[Duncan Gibb]

David Stanaway wrote:

DS> There is a patch maintained by the University of Athens which allows
DS> autocreation of inboxes.

See also bug #431931 which requests this be added to cyrus-imapd-2.3 -
something much more likely to happen as UoA for 2.3.x is maintained in
dpatch format, by me, for the Sirius builds.


DS> This is useful in an environment with directory/krb5 auth that would
DS> allow a simple account created email to trigger their mailbox to be
DS> built, and stanndard subfolders created.

Ought to be a standard feature.  There has been some discussion about
putting this patch in upstream:

http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/2009-June/thread.html

But CMU are apparently working on a different approach.  There are some
issues with UoA auto-* in Murder environments.  IMHO, this is not a
reason to exclude a very useful patch, which does nothing without extra
config options enabled, from the Debian builds.

Cheers

Duncan
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