Creating mailboxes

[Andrzej Adam Filip]

David Korpiewski <davidk at cs.umass.edu> writes:

> 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?

Do you create cyrus mailboxes for *existing* OS accounts?
[ Wording of your question make me think it is quite likely ]

YES => consider using "autocreate" patch

URL(s):
http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki/bin/view/Cyrus/ExternalLinks
http://email.uoa.gr/projects/cyrus/autocreate/

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