Creating mailboxes

[Nathanael D. Noblet]

On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 15:04 -0400, David Korpiewski wrote:
> So I have this particularly stupid newbie question but don't seem to 
> have a good answer yet:
> 
> I've found that I have to create the mailboxes for my users before they 
> can receive email.   However, to create the mailboxes, I've had to log 
> into cyradm and then run the "cm user.username" to make them.
> 
> This is fine, except that I want to script this process.  I'm sure other 
> people have done it.  We found a script that will do this, but we have 
> to put a username and password for one of the cyrus admins in it, which 
> makes the unix people around here uncomfortable.   Other than using 
> Kerberose for an authentication method to get into cyradm, is there any 
> other way to create mailboxes?

I know there is an option to create the mailbox on receive or something
like that. So that the first mail received autocreates the mailbox. The
user/password however you authenticate needs to exists obviously.
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