Fw: Creating mailboxes

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Hi Nathanael,

telnet domain.com 143
. login user at domain.com password
. create inbox
done
this is some of the way how to create mailbox.

all the best
Krasimir Kovachki
ICQ$# 4987601

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nathanael D. Noblet" <nathanael at gnat.ca>
To: "David Korpiewski" <davidk at cs.umass.edu>
Cc: <info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 10:17 PM
Subject: Re: Creating mailboxes


> 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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> Nathanael D. Noblet
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