Cyrus + postfix virtual mailboxes

[Hamish]

Andrew Morgan wrote:

>
> On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Hamish wrote:
>
>> Dick Davies wrote:
>>
>>> * Hamish <lists at subvs.co.uk> [1119 15:19]:
>>>
>>>> Hello everyone
>>>> Could someone please point me in the right direction? I would like 
>>>> to use virtual mailboxes for users. Username, pass, aliases etc are 
>>>> stored in ldap and I would like to be able to just use this to 
>>>> store user information. 
>>>
>>>
>>> Cyrus authentication can work that way, but unless you want to store 
>>> mail
>>> in LDAP you need a mailbox created in cyrus for the ldap entry as well.
>>>
>>> i.e. to create a mail user
>>> 1. ldapadd a user/password pair
>>> 2. run 'cyradm' and then 'cm user.username'
>>>
>> I have found that there seems to be a way of using one user for all 
>> the virtual mailboxes with courier - is this possible with cyrus? IE 
>> one mailbox which dishes out virtual mailboxes.
>> I want to be able to administer users in ldap, and not have to then 
>> change passwords etc anywhere else, so cyrus would have to check the 
>> user against ldap.
>
>
> Just to be clear, you have to create the mailbox in cyrus so that mail 
> can be received.  You'll also have to delete the mailbox in cyrus when 
> you remove the user.  You can have cyrus authenticate against any 
> number of sources, including ldap.
>
> Cyrus does not "read" ldap to figure out what mailboxes exist on the 
> system, so you're stuck with an extra step to create the mailbox. 
> However, you do not need to make a separate password in cyrus.
>
>     Andy
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Thanks Andy, this is helpful - I was worried about having to reset 
passwords in too many places! Adding and deleting mailboxes is ok, as 
long as its easy to fix if users forget their passwords!
Cheers,
H
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