User creation - automatic subscriptions

[Simon Matter]

> Summary: can safely I put mailbox subscriptions for a new user directly
> into their .sub file ?
>
> Hi,
>
> I am putting together a large cyrus system - 20,000 users - at a UK
> college.
>
> Creation of users need to be automatic, I will get a list of new users
> every
> day from central admin. Logged in as cyrus I can create the users and
> their
> mail boxes (drafts, etc) using a perl script, easy.
>
> The user then needs to be subscribed to their mailboxes. This must be done
> logged in as the user - that is hard, I have no way of knowing their
> password.

You could try using autocreate from here
http://email.uoa.gr/download/cyrus/cyrus-imapd-2.1.16/

Simon

>
> I do notice that the user fred's subscription list is stored in:
>
> 	/var/imap/user/f/fred.sub
>
> Is there any reason why I should not just create that file ?
>
> Come to that, is there any reason why I should not create the user's
> mailbox directly, ie .../users/fred/ and use reconstruct to rebuild
> the cyrus.cache, etc files ?
>
> --
> Alain Williams
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