Re: [maildropl] maildrop create Maildirs on the fly

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

On Tue, 01 Oct 2002, hzqbbc wrote:

> 
> no.. postfix 's virtual does create maildir if it doesn't exist ~~
> And of course we can add this dir creation at "add new user" procedure..
> but somebody like to do this by MDA :)

So try something like this (untested)

RC=`maildirmake -f folder Maildir </dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1 ; echo $?`

$RC will then be 0 for success and non-0 in case of problems.

However, I'm not sure if this triggers writing the mail to a temporary
file. It might, so it might be somewhat inefficient -- in that case,
you'd be better off wrapping maildrop up in a shell command that checks
if the maildir is there, runs maildirmake in case it isn't and only
after that execs maildrop "$@". I don't see how  this shell wrapper
trick would work with -d and userdb support though.