presubscribing mailboxes

[Earl Shannon]

Hello,

An alternative is to authenticate as one user, probably the admin user,
and
be authorized to act on behalf of the account.  That said, I don't know
how to
do this. If someone has an example of some perl code using the Perl
IMAP Admin module that does this and is able to post it to the list I
would appreciate it. 

Currently I do what you do when I need to subscribe a user to some
mailboxes in their account. Edit their subscription files.  Would
definitely
prefere being able to do this via the network instead of logging into
the box.

Regards,
Earl Shannon
-- 
Systems Programmer, Computing Services, Information Technology
NC State University.
http://www.earl.ncsu.edu



Luca Olivetti wrote:
> 
> [sent this yesterday but didn't appear on the list. something wrong with
> the list server?]
> 
> When I create a new user, I create some extra mailboxes:
> 
> user.name.sent
> user.name.drafts
> user.name.templates
> 
> While we were using netscape 4, during the first login it would
> subscribe to all existing mailboxes, now that we've switched to mozilla
> it doesn't, so I have to presubscribe these mailboxes while creating the
> user.
> The only way I found is a hack I'm not really happy with:
> 
> SUBFILE=/var/lib/imap/user/$initial/$LOGIN.sub
> echo -e "user.$LOGIN.sent\011" > $SUBFILE
> echo -e "user.$LOGIN.plantillas\011" >> $SUBFILE
> echo -e "user.$LOGIN.borradores\011" >> $SUBFILE
> chown cyrus.mail $SUBFILE
> chmod 600 $SUBFILE
> 
> Is there a better way?
> 
> TIA
> --
> Luca Olivetti
> Wetron Automatización S.A. http://www.wetron.es/
> Tel. +34 93 5883004      Fax +34 93 5883007