Creating Mailboxes via Script

[Simon Matter]

Hi,

I'm using attached scripts to create accounts from an LDAP tree.
imapcreate can be found on sourceforge.net somewhere.

HTH
Simon

Joe Dennick schrieb:
> 
> We've got Cyrus-Imap 2.1.12 running very well for our company Red Hat
> 8.0.  We are authenticating against a MySQL database that we use as a
> master Security Container for all of our application authentication and
> entitlements.  We've already populated the database with all of the user
> information required including usernames, passwords, shadow passwords,
> email addresses, etc.  Now we need to create Cyrus-Imap mailboxes for
> each user (close to 3,000 mailboxes).  I've seen several articles that
> talk about scripting CYRADM to read a text file containing usernames,
> but I can't get any of the scripting examples to work.  It appears as
> though Cyrus-Imap, or specifically CYRADM has changed since the examples
> were created.  Is there a way to script or batch create users?  All I
> really need to do is create the mailbox and set the ACL so cyrus (admin
> account) has admin control over the mailbox.  I can manually create the
> mailboxes with the following commands:
> 
>      cyradm --user cyrus localhost
>      IMAP Password:  *******
>      localhost.localdomain> createmailbox user.12345
>      localhost.localdomain> setacl user.12345 cyrus all
>      localhost.localdomain> quit
> 
> Thank you in advance for your assistance.
> 
> Joe Dennick
> joe at dennick.net
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