Template file Ispconfig to create basic folders in mailbox

Hi Till,
when I open a new mailbox, Ispconfig creates some default folders, especially Sent, Junk, Drafts and Trash.

Each e-mail client (in Imap), on each device, then creates its special folders, which in Italy are also translated into Italian, and therefore for each of those folders at least two more are created (eg for the Sent folder: Sent Messages for IOS devices and "Posta inviata" for Outlook).

To make the user experience of our customer better, in addition to the folders above, we decided to create the other folders, as a symbolic link, already during the creation of the email box.

In this way, for example, when a user sends an email with his iPhone, he will also find a copy in the .Sent folder of Roundcube and in the "Posta inviata" folder in Outlook.

Is it possible to act on an Ispconfig configuration file in order to already get the folders with symbolic links when opening the email box?

Thanks a lot

 

Do you mean this file? /usr/local/ispconfig/server/plugins-available/mail_plugin.inc.php

In that file there are instructions for creating folders, like

PHP:

exec("su -c 'doveadm mailbox create -u \"".$data["new"]["email"]."\" Sent'");


May I integrate the instructions in that file?

Thanks

 

Instead of changing the code, i would adjust the dovecot-config: https://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxSettings

 

@till
For example, if I duplicated the file /usr/local/ispconfig/server/plugins-available/mail_plugin.inc.php changing its name to mail_symlink_plugin.inc.php, I would also modify the class name (and the values of the first two variables) in it as well as the instructions for creating symbolic folder links in Maildir of the mailbox (deleting everything that is not needed), and finally putting the symlink in / usr / local / ispconfig / server / plugins-enable I would have created an additional, working, Ispconfig plugin?

@florian030
It would be a perfect solution but I tried to add for example

Code:

  
  mailbox virtual/"Posta inviata" {
    auto = create
    special_use = \Sent
    comment = cartella Posta inviata per Outlook
  }

in the file /etc/dovecot/conf.d/15-mailboxes.conf (I use Debian 9 with Dovecot 2.2.27), when I create a new mailbox with Ispconfig (and open it in Outlook) nothing happens to the usual: Outlook creates a "Posta inviata" folder that is completely independent of the .Sent folder.

I find little documentation on creating folders as a symbolic link in mailboxes, do you have any ideas?

 

it's /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf

 

The Dovecot configuration changes don't work for me, even if I put the instructions in the file /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf

I also found a perfect Dovecot plugin for my needs (Mailbox alias plugin https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/MailboxAlias) but I can't get it to go.

The idea of the Ispconfig additional plugin, attracts me a lot, even for future needs, but I'm afraid of wasting too much time, so for the moment I solved it with a manual Shell script.

Thanks for everything