Creating folders for non users

Nikos Gatsis ngatsis at qbit.gr
Wed Mar 19 11:18:25 EDT 2008


Bob Marcan wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:54:18 +0200
> Nikos Gatsis <ngatsis at qbit.gr> wrote:
>
>   
>> That won't cause any trouble to new users?
>>
>> Bob Marcan wrote:
>>     
>>> On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:05:38 +0200
>>> Nikos Gatsis <ngatsis at qbit.gr> wrote:
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Hello list.
>>>> I have a strange problem, with cyrus.
>>>> If system receive a message for a non existing user, cyrus creating this 
>>>> user and folders inbox,send etc.
>>>>
>>>> I use sendmail-8.14.2-1.fc8 and cyrus-imapd-2.3.9-7.fc8.
>>>>
>>>> My imapd.conf is:
>>>>
>>>> configdirectory: /var/lib/imap
>>>> partition-default: /var/spool/imap
>>>> admins: cyrus admin
>>>> allowanonymouslogin: no
>>>> allowplaintext: yes
>>>> anyoneuseracl: 0
>>>> autocreatequota: 20480
>>>> quotawarn: 90
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> createonpost: yes
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>> imapd.conf.5
>>> createonpost: 0
>>> 		  If  yes,  when  lmtpd  receives an incoming mail for an INBOX that
>>> 		  does not exist, then the INBOX is automatically created by  lmtpd.
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> autocreateinboxfolders: Sent|Drafts|Trash
>>>>         
>
> Depends.
> 1. Add new user with cyradm.
>     autocreateinboxfolders will still create mailboxes
>
> 2. If you want to use this feature, prevent delivery to nonexistent
>     cyrus user at MTA level.
> Regards, Bob
>
> P.S.
> Please, don't top post.
>
> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
> A: Top-posting.
> Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting#Top-posting
>
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>   
OK.
Seems to work without problems.
Thank you for your answer.
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