Hi,

I do not really think this is something that should concern the imapd. On the gross scale (with hundreds of thousands of users) I would not be happy implementing a shell to stat directories, etc. Especially over what might already be a very busy NFS link. This functionality really goes beyond the scope of the imapd functionality, and is the responsibility of the administration routines. In this time & money critical situation, I would suggest that the provisioning systems should do this. When a user creates an account, how much longer to add in a make maildir command? Only a fraction of a second. They will be waiting for other checks to happen anyway, so what's a few milliseconds more?

If the source for the imapd was hacked, and provided for future versions as a patch, the patch would surely fail at some point. Then some one has to take the system functionality apart, and decode the original source code, and then check the patch code ....... It just gets real messy. As someone who has to do this kind of thing FAR TOO OFTEN, please don't hack the standard source. Hack the provisioning routines, which will be fairly prorietary anyway.

Regards,