On July 8, 2008, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Andrew Nady writes: > > On July 8, 2008, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > >> If there's no $HOME/Maildir, then where does the mail go? > > > > Exactly my point, the pickle is that courier is not able to create a > > $HOME or a $HOME/Maildir. > > No, you missed the point. An IMAP server's job is to provide access to mail > in existing accounts via IMAP. If there's no $HOME/Maildir, then where is > the mail that the IMAP server supposed to read? If you do not have a > $HOME/Maildir, then you, obviously, do not have a mail account to provide > access to. It's not the IMAP server's job to create accounts. The technical > specification for IMAP may be found here: > http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3501.html. No part of the IMAP server's job > involves creating mail accounts. Furthermore, it is dangerous to do so. If, > for example, mail accounts are supposed to reside on an NFS server, but the > NFS mount failed previously, the IMAP server will happily go ahead and > start scribbling over the local disk.
Hmm, in my case I have no NFS mount just plain old ext3. I am well aware of what IMAP should and shouldn't do. In my case I need a $HOME/Maildir generated for users that authenticating with /krb5/pam/imap Am I in the wrong mailing list? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _______________________________________________ Courier-imap mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-imap
