diff -ur courier-authlib-0.55.orig/authdaemon.c courier-authlib-0.55/authdaemon.c
--- courier-authlib-0.55.orig/authdaemon.c	2004-11-21 12:14:58.000000000 +0900
+++ courier-authlib-0.55/authdaemon.c	2005-04-19 15:03:15.119638892 +0900
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@
 #include	<sys/time.h>
 #include	<sys/select.h>
 #include	"numlib/numlib.h"
+/* for automake homedir */
+#include        <sys/stat.h>
 
 static const char rcsid[]="$Id: courier-authlib-0.55-automakehomedir.diff,v 1.1.1.1 2005/04/25 16:16:52 nomo Exp $";
 
@@ -99,6 +101,24 @@
 		return (1);
 	}
 
+	/* automake homedir start */
+	struct stat mbuf;
+	int st;
+        if (stat(ainfo->homedir, &mbuf) != 0) {
+	  pmkdir(ainfo->homedir, S_IRWXU);
+	  if (stat(ainfo->homedir, &mbuf) == 0) {
+	    fprintf(stderr, "WARN: %s: homedir(%s) not found, now created!!\n",
+		    ainfo->address, ainfo->homedir);
+	  }
+	  else {
+	    fprintf(stderr, "WARN: %s: homedir(%s) not found, create failed!!\n",
+                    ainfo->address, ainfo->homedir);
+	    perror("WARN: error");
+	    return (1);
+	  }
+	}
+	/* automake homedir end */
+
 	if (chdir(ainfo->homedir))
 	{
 		fprintf(stderr, "WARN: %s: chdir(%s) failed!!\n",
@@ -109,3 +129,29 @@
 
 	return 0;
 }
+
+/* mkdir(2) wrapper to make parent directory */
+int pmkdir(const char *pathname, mode_t mode)
+{
+  int first, last, retval=0;
+  char *p;
+  p = (char *)pathname;
+  if (p[0] == '/')
+    ++p;
+  for (first = 1, last = 0; !last ; ++p) {
+    if (p[0] == '\0')
+      last = 1;
+    else if (p[0] != '/')
+      continue;
+    *p = '\0';
+    if (!last && p[1] == '\0')
+      last = 1;
+    if (first) {
+      first = 0;
+    }
+    retval = mkdir(pathname, mode);
+    if (!last)
+      *p = '/';
+  }
+  return (retval);
+}