sendmail-8.12.6+cyrus-imapd-2.0.17: check presence of the cyrus mailbox during establishing SMTP connection

[Igor Brezac]

On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Andrzej Filip wrote:

> Igor Brezac wrote:
> > On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Andrzej Filip wrote:
> >>Mike Brodbelt wrote:
> >>>A Clockwork Orange wrote:
> >>>>sendmail-8.12.6+cyrus-imapd-2.0.17
> >>>>
> >>>>I'd like sendmail to check presence of the cyrus mailbox during
> >>>>establishing SMTP connection.
> >>>>If the cyrus mailbox doesn't present sendmail drops SMTP connection
> >>>>(doesn't recieve email).
> >>>>What have i to write in sendmail.mc file?
> >>>
> >
> > I use virtusertable map for this purpose.  You need to ensure that the
> > virtusertable is in sync with the cyrus mailbox list.
>
> I also thought that "virtusertable like" solutions [periodic dump of cyrus
> mailbox data into existing sendmail databases] are the best but most people
> had wanted "real time" synchronization.

True, this would be a long way of doing things.  Shell/perl/web/etc
scripts can automate the process of managing cyrus mboxlist and sendmail
maps simultaneously thus keeping the two databases in sync "real time".

-- 
Igor